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 ...

The annual pelvic exam has long been a routine part of women's health care, but new guidelines say there's no good reason for it. The recommendations, laid out by the American College of Physicians ...

Pelvic exams are an indispensable part of gynecological care and are used to screen for conditions, such as cervical cancer, that affect millions of patients every year. Unfortunately, pelvic exams ...

Mixed messages in recent years about the value of the routine pelvic exam may have led more women to skip it. An analysis of data over a 30-year period (1988–2017) from the National Survey of Family ...