Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the United States, one in three women undergoes hysterectomy by age 60 years, according to the CDC. Previous ...

When Patricia Caudle first began noticing that her menstrual periods were abnormal, she “just dealt with it.” But after they began substantially interfering with her quality of life, she knew she ...

Back in March, I called in sick to work for the first time. I have never taken a sick day — ever. And I have been working since I was 16 years old, so you know something was wrong. But that day, for ...

Doctors often direct women with symptomatic uterine fibroids toward hysterectomy, or full removal of the uterus. But for roughly 25 years, interventional radiologists nationwide have offered a faster, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Reintervention rates were higher for hysteroscopic myomectomy, uterine artery embolization and endometrial ...

Embolization, a relatively new therapy for fibroid tumors that cuts off their blood supply, leads to quicker and less painful recoveries than hysterectomy. But the tumors often return. A team of ...

Uterine fibroids or “leiomyomas” are common benign tumors of the muscle within the uterus that frequently occur in middle-aged woman. These tumors, which occur in up to 65% of women in that age group, ...

John Lipman is the founder and medical director of the Atlanta Fibroid Center in Smyrna, Georgia, and an adjunct clinical assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Morehouse ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Many Black women are told a hysterectomy is the answer for fibroids— but health professionals are ...

Tonya Dawson had never heard of fibroids until she started bleeding after boot camp workouts around 10 years ago. “It wasn’t much, but it was there,” Dawson said. Dawson had a myomectomy, an operation ...