There’s a lot for parents to navigate when kids hit puberty: sex ed (if you haven’t already initiated that conversation), various physical changes, mood swings, menstruation and more. When that child ...

Daniella Mohazab didn’t know what to expect from her first pelvic exam in 2016. The University of Southern California sophomore, then 19, was startled when her doctor examined her vagina for several ...

Healthcare practitioners, including medical students, are now prohibited from performing pelvic examinations on female patients without first obtaining written consent, but many specific, logistical ...

A new state law aimed at protecting patients from unwanted pelvic exams, sparked by reports of women being subjected to exams while they were under anesthesia, has created uncertainty for physicians ...

Draft recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) say there is insufficient evidence to assess the balance of benefits and harms for the use of pelvic examinations to detect ...

Studies in populations where infections of the genital tract (GTI) are more prevalent than those of the urinary tract (UTI) suggest that pelvic examinations must be included in the evaluation of all ...

Michigan currently has no state law preventing medical students from performing pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without their consent. Surveys indicate that nonconsensual exams are common for ...