Janine, a nurse in Arizona, checked into the hospital for stomach surgery in 2017. Before the procedure, she told her physician that she did not want medical students to be directly involved. But ...

Transvaginal ultrasounds involve a slender probe that's inserted into the vagina. The procedure can be uncomfortable but probably no worse than a pap smear. People who are pregnant or have a condition ...

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 woman's yearly health visit often involves a pelvic exam — a procedure some find uncomfortable and embarrassing — but new recommendations say many women do not need to have this procedure routinely.

Doctors should stop performing routine pelvic exams, a key component of regular physicals for women, an influential medical group said yesterday. There is no evidence that such exams are useful, and ...

A pelvic exam is an examination of the internal pelvic organs and external genitalia. This includes the vagina, vulva, uterus, cervix, rectum, ovaries, and fallopian tubes. Your healthcare provider ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Collage by Jesse Draxler. In 2016, Katie* had just started her first clinical rotation for the Yale School of ...

Physician responses to patient expectations can affect physician incomes and may help explain lower incomes for many women, racialized, and immigrant physicians, found a new study published in the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new batch of states is looking to legislate the level of informed consent required for medical students to perform pelvic exams on unconscious patients for educational purposes.