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 ...

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 ...

For a young woman, a checkup at the gynecologist may consist of several components: discussing her sexual and reproductive history, checking her breasts for lumps, getting tested for sexually ...

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 ...

In another blow to American women's rights to bodily autonomy, Missouri quietly began forcing doctors to perform medically unnecessary pelvic exams on women seeking abortions. Here's what you should ...

Experts are still debating whether women need a pelvic exam at their yearly visit to a gynecologist, according to a new report. The report comes from a government-appointed expert panel that reviewed ...

It's fairly vague language." In general, the bills introduced this year would require explicit informed consent before a medical student is allowed to perform a pelvic exam on an anesthetized patient.

ST. LOUIS — Planned Parenthood of St. Louis, the last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri, confirmed it will no longer conduct pelvic exams 72 hours before performing the abortion procedure. Dr.

Imagine you are a patient who is undergoing abdominal surgery, perhaps you have a gynecological or prostate issue. Naturally you gravitate to the best hospital in your network or you follow your ...

While Missouri teeters on the brink of becoming the first state with no abortion clinics, the state’s last clinic says it’s refusing to comply with a law on pelvic exams. And the timing could be ...

Experts are still debating whether women need a pelvic exam at their yearly visit to a gynecologist, according to a new report. The report comes from a government-appointed expert panel that reviewed ...