Uterine fibroids affect Black women disproportionately but doctors often dismiss your pain. Genetics and healthcare bias ...

Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous tumors that develop in the smooth muscle tissue of the uterus, a key organ in the female ...

“Usually, women are unaware that they have fibroids in the uterus, only finding out during an ultrasound scan. If left untreated, these growths can disrupt daily life, especially if symptomatic, such ...

Dr. Kameelah Phillips shares the importance of empowerment and what women can do take control of their health and bodies.

The only definitive treatment is hysterectomy, which removes both the fibroids and the uterus that houses them. The lack of other permanent treatments is likely why 8 percent of women who had a ...

THEIR high-profile marriage may have got them a hit fly-on-the-wall series, but Tanya Bardsley admits there are some days ...

For many women, fibroids are a silent struggle that frequently goes overlooked. As women’s complex health needs remain consistently ignored, a novel solution aims to disrupt the standard. Viva Eve ...

Uterine fibroids impact seventy percent of female patients by their 50s and doctors generally treat such problems through invasive surgical procedures like myomectomy or hysterectomy. The surgical ...

In the not-too-distant past, doctors routinely performed a hysterectomy for fibroid tumors. And while newer, less-invasive treatments are available, studies show this dramatic operation is still ...

My three fibroids didn't interfere with my pregnancies, but they continued to grow significantly after. I'm getting a hysterectomy to remove the fibroids, and I'm having a lot of feelings about it.

Experts have called for more awareness among patients of uterine fibroids, one of the most common indications of hysterectomy.(REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO) She added, “Fibroids usually develop within ...

Gross Stacia Alexander was 25 and pregnant when her OB-GYN first recommended a hysterectomy. It was 1996, and an ultrasound had revealed fibroids growing in the walls of her uterus. But she knew ...