Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Addressing patients’ anxiety about pelvic exams could help prevent them from delaying or avoiding the procedure, ...

When she was a child, Morgan, now 36, said, she was sexually assaulted multiple times by a pediatrician under the guise of pelvic exams — a procedure in which doctors insert two fingers into the ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new batch of states are looking to legislate the level of informed consent when it comes to medical students performing pelvic exams for educational purposes on unconscious ...

Sen. Lauren Book, who championed the informed-consent requirement, stands behind the law's policy. "I think it leads to patient-doctor conversations. I don't want anybody doing anything without ...

Pelvic exam is a important part of the exam for female patients and important towards making various diagnoses such as yeast vulvovaginitis, bacterial vaginosis, lichen sclerosis, cancers such as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's how repurposing a medical glove and putting it on a speculum can improve visualization for doctors during pelvic exams.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The first time I did a pelvic exam on a real ...

The Florida medical community was left concerned and confused by the passage of the original 2020 pelvic examination law. As we discussed in our past blog, practitioners believed the law was overly ...

A new Pennsylvania law will require doctors to get a patient's verbal and written consent before medical students can perform pelvic or rectal exams on someone who receives anesthesia.At a press ...

The school needs people to play patients so future doctors can learn. The benefits? Unclear. The up-close exams? Guaranteed.

A new batch of states are looking to legislate the level of informed consent when it comes to medical students performing pelvic exams for educational purposes on unconscious patients. Colorado ...