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 ...

Hospitals performing pelvic and other sensitive exams for training purposes without patients’ explicit consent, including on anesthetized patients, won’t be eligible for Medicare and Medicaid ...

As part of their training, medical students sometimes perform intimate physical examinations on surgical patients who are under anesthesia. Federal guidelines now prohibit this teaching practice ...

Michigan has no laws to prevent medical students from practicing invasive exams on unconscious patients. Two policy experts ...

Some may remember 2012 for the Summer Olympics, rumors about the world ending or the third Batman film. But I say it should go down as the year of the Pap smear. A change in Pap smear (cervical cancer ...