BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Planned Parenthood South Texas is offering expanded services, including a new self-HPV ...

Evidence suggests the widespread adoption of trauma-informed care practices can potentially improve access to care as well as ...

Historically, women have always cared for the sick in their communities as healers, medicine women, and midwives. But only men were allowed to get formal medical training. It wasn’t until 1849 that ...

An abnormal Pap smear result doesn’t necessarily mean you have cervical cancer. Your doctor may recommend further testing as a next step.

Lehigh Valley Health Network, part of Jefferson Health, and HNL Lab Medicine are now offering self-collection human papillomavirus (HPV) testing in the Lehigh Valley. This marks a significant shift in ...

The bill would require health plans to fully cover pap tests and medically necessary follow-up care without deductibles, copays or coinsurance.

A Queensland former doctor has been indefinitely disqualified from reapplying for registration after a tribunal found he excessively performed pap smears, breast checks and vaginal examinations on ...

For many women, the annual trip to the OB-GYN is the one non-negotiable item on the health calendar. You get your Pap smear, renew your birth control, and check “see the doctor” off your to-do list ...

For many women, it’s easy to put off an annual gynecologic exam—especially when life feels busy and nothing seems “wrong.” But according to principal gynecologist, Dr. Elizabeth Moore, MD FACOG of ...

New federal guidelines will make it easier for women to get screened for cervical cancer. According to the new recommendations by the Health Resources and Services Administration, women between the ...

Michigan currently has no state law preventing medical students from performing pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without their consent. Surveys indicate that nonconsensual exams are common for ...