Every year millions of women trek to their gynecologist or other healthcare provider and reluctantly climb into the stirrups. Though no one particularly likes a pelvic exam, most women put up with the ...

Unnecessary testing may expose young women to “preventable harms,” including anxiety, false-positives, and treatment that isn’t needed, according to findings in JAMA Internal Medicine. About 1.4 ...

Female Sexual Function Improves After Lesion Surgery The majority of obstetrician-gynecologists perceive bimanual pelvic examinations as important for adult women of all ages, although the reasons ...

That awkward feet-in-the-stirrups moment when the doctor inserts two gloved fingers into your vagina to feel your cervix, uterus and ovaries while pressing down with the other hand on your abdomen may ...

54.4% of women are receiving potentially unnecessary pelvic exams 3 in 4 women are given unnecessary pap smear tests The study highlights the lack of compliance regarding the appropriate use of these ...

The pelvic exam, a standard part of a woman’s gynecologic checkup, frequently is performed for reasons that are medically unjustified, according to the authors of a UCSF study that may lay the ...

The American College of Physicians is recommending against pelvic exams that gynecologists have routinely performed for decades on nonpregnant, healthy women during their annual checkups. The ACP’s ...

It turns out that the most uncomfortable and painful part of your annual gynecological exam is also pretty useless. So useless, in fact, that the American College of Physicians, the largest medical ...

In America, when a woman goes to her gynecologist, she is typically given a pelvic exam whether or not she has symptoms or concerns that might warrant one. That's one reason an estimated 63.4 million ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Almost any woman will tell you that it's not her gynecologist she dislikes -- it's the logistics of the annual pelvic exam, starting with the stirrups. The exam's purpose is to ...

Leeches used to be used as a medical cure-all, but today are of course almost entirely discredited. It’s worth wondering how many other medical tests — from the prostate-specific antigen to routine ...