Lawyers for the Fairfax County school board will be going to federal court tomorrow to demand vaginal and anal exams of an alleged sexual assault victim, “Kate,” for injuries she ...

In a pelvic exam, the Mayo Clinic says, a doctor will “insert two lubricated, gloved fingers into your vagina with one hand, while the other hand presses gently on the outside of your lower ...

IDEAS Let’s liberate women from the speculum The invasive duck-billed metal device has been the bane of routine checkups for 180 years. It’s time to reinvent the pelvic exam.

House Bill 5067 would place Connecticut within an emerging legislative trend to require healthcare providers to ask permission before using patients as teaching tools for intimate exams.

Dr. Derrick Todd is facing three lawsuits from dozens of women who claim he performed unnecessary pelvic and breast exams on them.

In an article published on Harvard’s Health Blog, Huma Farid writes, “Pelvic exams and a visit to the gynecologist may be embarrassing or painful,” but for some women, like those who have ...

TRENTON, N.J. - Legislation that protects unconscious patients from invasive examinations without prior consent has been signed into law. The New Jersey Assembly of Democrats said in a release ...

Planned Parenthood argued that the licensing law required providers to give “medically unnecessary and invasive” pelvic exams to anyone receiving an abortion, including medication abortions ...