Some of the nation's leading medical schools have abandoned a little-known, decades-old practice of letting students perform pelvic exams on women without their consent while they are under ...

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.

The recent recommendation from the American College of Physicians to forgo annual routine pelvic exams for most women has sparked much debate.

Women understand that pelvic exams are medically necessary and a normal part of wellness checkups. But too often in this country, they are performed unnecessarily and without a woman’s consent ...

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It’s the latest battle over screening: Should healthy women skip annual pelvic exams? A controversial recommendation last year by the American College of Physicians (ACP), which represents the ...

About 1.4 million teenage women may receive bimanual pelvic exams they don’t need, a new study reports today, as results show that more than half these exams and three-quarters of all ...

Woman's yearly health visit often involves a pelvic exam, but new recommendations say many women do not need to have this procedure routinely.

A manual pelvic examination in which gynecologists use their hands to feel around for potentially cancerous masses is not needed for most women, a leading doctors' group said Monday.