A Mission district doctor was slapped with a decadelong prison sentence Monday for giving patients pelvic exams they didn’t need. Jose Rosas, 56, was prescribed 10 years and eight months in the ...

Unnecessary testing may expose young women to “preventable harms,” including anxiety, false-positives, and treatment that isn’t needed, according to findings in JAMA Internal Medicine. About 1.4 ...

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 ...

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 who aren’t ...

Millions of young women have reportedly had intrusive and uncomfortable gynecological exams that they didn’t really need, according to researchers behind a new study published in JAMA Internal ...

(Reuters Health) - There isn’t enough evidence to say for sure whether healthy women need routine pelvic screening exams, according to new guidelines from U.S. physicians. The conclusion issued by the ...

The current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of performing screening pelvic examinations in asymptomatic, nonpregnant adult women for the early detection and ...

Many American teen girls and young women under the age of 21 are undergoing pelvic exams and Pap tests they just don't need, a new study finds. "Parents of adolescents and young women should be aware ...

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 ...

In 2018, Madelyn Brown contacted her pharmacist for a fairly routine refill on her birth control pills. Instead, she was met with hostility as the pharmacist ordered Brown to contact her gynecologist ...

An influential advisory panel says there's not enough evidence to determine whether annual pelvic exams should be routine for women who aren't pregnant and have no symptoms of disease. "We basically ...