Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The speculum — the medical device used during pelvic exams — hasn't changed much in 170 years. (Getty Images; illustration: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's how repurposing a medical glove and putting it on a speculum can improve visualization for doctors during pelvic exams.

It is cold, hard, metallic and commonly associated with pain. Not a medieval torture instrument, but the vaginal speculum used every day around the world for essential gynecological exams. Two ...

The invasive duck-billed metal device has been the bane of routine checkups for 180 years. It’s time to reinvent the pelvic exam. The present-day pelvic exam, born through the graceless adequacy of a ...

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The SPECUVAG AS vaginal speculum from RI.MOS consists of smoke evacuator adapter and central key locking system. It allows to widen the vaginal canal and expose the uterus neck. Recommended to remove ...

Every year millions of women trek to their gynecologist or other healthcare provider and reluctantly climb into the stirrups. Though no one particularly likes a pelvic exam, most women put up with the ...

For a woman who had spent the previous evening sprawled across an examining table, receiving what she estimated was her For a woman who had spent the previous evening sprawled across an examining ...

More than half of bimanual pelvic exams (BPE) given to young women aged 15 to 20 years are likely unnecessary, according to estimates from a study published online today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Anyone who has ever had been screened for cervical cancer, aka gotten a Pap smear, during a pelvic exam knows how uncomfortable it can be — and the speculum plays a key role in that. The ...