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 ...

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.

The annual pelvic exam has been routinely performed on American women for decades. Controversy over the effectiveness vs. the “embarrassment factor” has recently taken center stage. Dr. Kirtly Jones ...

Close-up of examination table with stirrups in gynecologist's office On April 1, the Department of Health and Human Services released a letter to the nation’s teaching hospitals and medical schools to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many doctors require that women have a pelvic exam before they can get a prescription for birth control pills, despite guidelines saying that the step is unnecessary, a new ...

As a medical student, Dr. Shawn Barnes had an experience that he says left him feeling ashamed and conflicted. During his rotation through the obstetrics and gynecology ward of a teaching hospital in ...