A 36-year-old woman presented with a lump in her abdomen during her first pregnancy. She told clinicians she had noticed the lump before she became pregnant. She had no pain or other symptoms. The ...
If you find yourself one of the 80% of women who receive a fibroids diagnosis, don’t panic: There’s an arsenal of uterine fibroids treatment options available. Fibroids, also called leiomyomas or ...
If you have a uterus, chances are you’ll find yourself discussing uterine fibroids with your doctor at some point during your life. “Uterine fibroids, also caused by leiomyomas, are benign ...
Tanika Gray Valbrun started experiencing extremely heavy periods early in her teen years. “I was that girl who always had to carry pads with her, felt like I was always on my period, had to wear two ...
DOCTOR A NEW WAY TO TREAT UTERINE FIBROIDS FIBROIDS ARE BENIGN MUSCLE CELLS AND THEY CAN GROW AS LARGE AS A MELON AND BE QUITE PAINFUL. THE NEW PROCEDURE IS CALLED ASSESSA. IT’S MINIMALLY INVASIVE ...
A doctor has issued words of caution after a 44-pound tumor was removed from a woman's uterus in Italy. The tumor, known as a uterine fibroid, measured nearly 40 centimeters in size, according to a ...
From unbearable pain to feeling no symptoms at all, women with uterine fibroids can have vastly different experiences. While these growths affect a large percentage of women, health advocates say they ...
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 ...
Golden Globe-winning actress Sharon Stone shared on Instagram this week that she recently had a misdiagnosis that led to an incorrect procedure. Stone said she underwent a double epidural catheter ...