When fibroids — benign tumors that grow on uterine walls — lead to symptoms like heavy bleeding and pain, many doctors recommend hysterectomy. In fact, 30 percent of the 600,000 hysterectomies ...

This content is sponsored by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Many women experience things like bloating, pelvic pain and pressure, constipation or very heavy periods and may not know the cause.

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 ...

CORPUS CHRISTI — About 200,000 women have their uterus removed every year due to severe symptoms and one in four women of reproductive age suffer from fibroids. Caroline — who asked us not to mention ...

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 ...

"The first surprise was the precision and effectiveness of embolization on the possibility of devascularizing a large number of fibroids and the ability of the uterus to heal favorably as well as the ...

At least 35 million American women have been diagnosed with uterine fibroids. These non-cancerous tumors grow in the wall of the uterus, causing heavy menstrual bleeding and pelvic pain. Dr. Megan ...

LaToya Wright founded The Fibroid Pandemic after being diagnosed with uterine fibroids. The diagnosis led to a four-year journey researching fibroids and Wright choosing to undergo uterine fibroid ...

More than half of women eventually develop fibroids, which are noncancerous tumors that develop in the uterus. Most of the time, they don't have any symptoms and cause no problems, but when they do, ...

UTERINE FIBROIDS ARE COMMON, NON-CANCEROUS GROWTHS THAT DEVELOP IN OR AROUND THE UTERUS. THEY OFTEN DON’T CAUSE ANY SYMPTOMS, BUT WHEN THEY DO, THEY CAN BE DEBILITATING. IN THOSE CASES, WOMEN OFTEN ...