Do I need an annual pelvic exam? The annual pelvic exam is not a test women look forward to — it's an uncomfortable and invasive procedure. For healthy women without sy Sept. 14, 2016, 2:05 PM PDT ...

A pelvic exam involves visually and physically checking the female reproductive system and sexual organs. These exams may be part of an annual checkup, and they are performed regularly during ...

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 ...

Last year, Hannah Shacter learned to perform a procedure known to invoke anxiety among medical students: the infamous pelvic exam. But the third-year medical student may have been among the last batch ...

In most states, it is legal for a medical student to perform a pelvic exam on a woman who is under anesthesia; Wright believes this happened to her during a surgery in 2009.

Moreover, pelvic exams can cause harm — from unnecessary and expensive extra testing when the exam sparks a false alarm, to the anxiety, embarrassment and discomfort that many women report ...

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The ACP came to its current pelvic-exam guideline after a committee of its experts systematically reviewed all the literature on the topic published from 1946 through January 2014. They concluded ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – No more dreaded pelvic exam? New guidelines say most healthy women can skip the yearly ritual. Routine pelvic exams don’t benefit women who have no symptoms of disease and ...