A woman in a long white dress walks slowly on a beach, putting on her best hat as she's encircled by a flock of birds. Another rocks back and forth on a tree swing as she laughs quietly to herself, ...

Feminine hygiene products for vaginal douching may expose users to potentially harmful chemicals known as phthalates, a small study suggests. Researchers did urine tests to detect phthalate exposure ...

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Douching is cleaning the inside of the vagina with water or other cleansing fluids. It is a fairly common practice, with some studies estimating that about one in every four women regularly douches.

Douching has been a controversial subject for some time now. Is it safe or isn’t it? Even though its purpose is to clean you from the inside out, most gynecologists don’t condone it because it messes ...

New research adds yet another reason to the list of why women should reconsider douching. Douching—defined as the washing of the vagina with water or a fluid mixture—is widely discouraged by medical ...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has released a new study that links douching with ovarian cancer. Douching is the process of cleaning the vagina with water or vinegar ...

Objective: To determine the prevalence of douching among a cohort of HIV-infected women and to examine clinical outcomes associated with frequent douching—namely bacterial vaginosis, presence of a ...