With an increased focus on how climate change affects global health, gynecologists are examining ways they can play a positive role in reducing the field's carbon footprint while balancing patient ...

The exam room is not the appropriate place for family politics to play out, yet I often feel like I am a referee between mothers and daughters. Although I’m usually happy to see mothers accompanying ...

The guidelines, published Jan. 5 by the Health Resources and Services Administration, now recommend that average-risk women ...

A pelvic exam is a doctor’s visual and physical examination of a woman’s reproductive organs. During the exam, the doctor inspects the vagina, cervix, fallopian tubes, vulva, ovaries, and uterus.

A pelvic exam involves physically and visually examining the female reproductive and sexual organs. It allows a doctor to look for signs of infection and illness. Doctors often perform pelvic exams to ...

TORONTO - The latest guidelines governing pelvic examinations for women under anesthetic leave patients less protected than they were under the previous rules, say legal analysts. In an article in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pain during gynecologic exams is often dismissed, not recognized and undertreated by some clinicians. Clinicians ...

Before patients undergo intimate physical exams, including ones performed under anesthesia, hospitals must obtain written informed consent — or risk federal funding. That’s according to new guidance ...

Because a Pap test is typically done during a routine pelvic exam, you should schedule the exam when you are not having your period. In addition, for 48 hours prior to the exam, you should not: You ...