EXAMS ARE REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF WOMEN’S HEALTH, BUT WHEN SHOULD THEY BEGIN? WE ASK MERCY MEDICAL CENTER DOCTOR TARA CHADWICK. IT SORT OF DEPENDS ON WHETHER YOU’RE HAVING AN ISSUE OR IF IT’S JUST A ...

EXAMS ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF A WOMAN’S HEALTH. BUT WHEN SHOULD THEY START? MERCY MEDICAL CENTER DOCTOR TARA CHADWICK JOINS US NOW WITH SOME MORE INFORMATION. THANKS FOR BEING HERE. GOOD MORNING. HI.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many doctors give women pelvic exams when they're not called for by guidelines, for example to screen for ovarian cancer or before prescribing birth control pills, ...

Physicians usually require an annual pelvic exam before prescribing oral birth control to women, but the two practices have no medical reason to be linked. Indeed, according to a consortium of ...

Doctors should not do pelvic exams on women who are not pregnant and have no symptoms of disease, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians published Monday. A review of ...

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Here's how repurposing a medical glove and putting it on a speculum can improve visualization for doctors during pelvic exams. (Getty Images) The speculum, a duckbill-shaped medical device best known ...

The speculum, a duckbill-shaped medical device best known for being used during pelvic exams, hasn’t changed much over the past 170 years, but researchers are trying to make the existing tool more ...