EXAMS ARE REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF WOMEN’S HEALTH, BUT WHEN SHOULD THEY BEGIN? WE ASK MERCY MEDICAL CENTER DOCTOR TARA CHADWICK. IT SORT OF DEPENDS ON WHETHER YOU’RE HAVING AN ISSUE OR IF IT’S JUST A ...

Imagine you are a patient who is undergoing abdominal surgery, perhaps you have a gynecological or prostate issue. Naturally you gravitate to the best hospital in your network or you follow your ...

On Monday, the federal government issued new recommendations that require hospitals to get consent before conducting intimate exams on patients, especially those under anesthesia. The Scripps News ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It’s a procedure so routine, even the name is predicable: the annual exam. For women of any age, this yearly doctor visit entails two certainties: a breast exam and a pelvic exam.

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 ...

(WHTM) — A new law in Pennsylvania aims to protect patients getting surgery. It passed the State House and Senate unanimously just before Thanksgiving before Governor Shapiro signed it into law. The ...

Exempla, St Joseph Hospital, Denver, Colorado. She has over 2 decades of women's healthcare experience and is well respected on the national level as a nurse-midwifery leader. I approach every new ...

A new state law aimed at protecting patients from unwanted pelvic exams, sparked by reports of women being subjected to exams while they were under anesthesia, has created uncertainty for physicians ...

Editor's note: CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is the author of "The Empowered Patient." The opinions expressed in this article are solely hers. (CNN) -- Ladies: I know you've heard ...