That awkward feet-in-the-stirrups moment when the doctor inserts two gloved fingers into your vagina to feel your cervix, uterus and ovaries while pressing down with the other hand on your abdomen may ...

Should postmenopausal women continue to undergo routine pelvic exams? Commentary from Risa Kagan, MD, NCMP. As a third-year medical student, my favorite chief resident counseled me to choose the area ...

April 22, 2009 — The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has issued a committee opinion on routine pelvic examination and cervical cytology screening that will be published in ...

Annabeth Baah's optometrist noticed a swollen nerve in her eye. A few weeks later, the seemingly healthy 8-year-old was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She had surgery followed by proton therapy and is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . I recently had the pleasure of sharing the podium with Drs. Peter Bergenske and Bruce Onofrey at the Southwest ...

The tumor, a craniopharyngioma, was benign but required brain surgery and six weeks of proton therapy due to incomplete ...

Multiple guidelines exist for the follow-up of breast cancer, with no agreement on frequency or duration. The contribution of routine clinical examination for the detection of potentially treatable ...

The routine pelvic exam endured by healthy women at their physician’s office is a yearly ritual that frequently produces pain, anxiety and embarrassment in return for no documented benefit, and it ...

WASHINGTON -- A small nodule was found in former President Joe Biden's prostate after "a routine physical exam" at a hospital in Philadelphia, a spokesperson confirmed to ABC News on Tuesday. "In a ...