Unfortunately, many Black women are more susceptible to developing uterine fibroids compared to any other ethnic group, as studies show that 70–80% of Black women will have them by their late 40s. In ...

Uterine fibroids, according to the Mayo Clinic, are “noncancerous growths of the uterus that often appear during childbearing years.” They can range in size from tiny seedlings to bulky masses.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Once-daily treatment with a combination of relugolix, estradiol and norethindrone acetate significantly reduced ...

Fibroids have plagued our community for far too long. According to a recent study, 40% to 80% of women are most likely to develop fibroids by the time they reach 50 years old, with Black women three ...

However, because she was living in the U.S. and had no health insurance, she had not opted for surgical treatment at that time. She told clinicians that at around that point in time, she developed ...

Women with uterine fibroids who are treated with embolization, a minimally invasive procedure, may get out of bed and back to work faster. But after a year, their quality-of-life scores are about the ...

Uterine fibroids affect countless women worldwide, often developing silently until they cause significant discomfort or health complications. These non-cancerous growths in the uterus can range from ...

Uterine fibroids may be a marker for identifying women prone to cardiovascular disease, according to a new longitudinal study.

Uterine fibroids that can cause chronic pain and disrupt pregnancy plans disproportionately affect Black women, and research that would help women and girls is underfunded, experts say. The ...

Uterine fibroid tumors can be painful and troublesome – and sometimes undiagnosed. “Up to 30% of women have them and don't know,” Samy Iskandar, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Bon Secours OB-GYN, ...

Erica Chidi, co-founder and CEO of Loom, a women's health education platform, is making her private health journey -- a six-year battle with uterine fibroids -- public, she said, in hopes of making ...