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 ...

But the cause of these issues is often surprisingly common: fibroids. Given just how many women develop fibroids (the NHS suggests around two in three women will develop at least one fibroid at ...

They warn ignorance is leading to harmful suspicion, violence, and even tragic deaths, among women and girls. Uterine ...

Klapperich (left) and Joyce Y. Wong (right) are doing. Photo by Jake Belcher. Here’s a shocking fact: nearly 80 percent of ...

The prevalence of these tumors increases with age, which becomes significant as more women are delaying childbearing. Therefore, fibroids and infertility frequently occur together. Treatment ...

Women's Health. 2015;11(2):151-159. There are currently no data investigating the risk, or effect on diagnosis, of leiomyosarcoma in the other medical or hormonal treatments of fibroids such as ...

A Nigerian doctor raised concerns over the use of hair relaxers, claiming that they contributes to the development of ...

Researchers have established that endometriosis and uterine fibroids significantly raise long-term risks of premature ...

The Noncancerous Uterine Diseases Research Program studies healthy uterine function and uterine conditions, including uterine ...

Tina James, a 27-year-old woman, was initially overcome with fear and anxiety when she learned that she had uterine fibroids, growths that can cause a woman’s belly to swell grotesquely in ...

It is thought that around five million women in the US have uterine fibroids that cause symptoms, with two-thirds of them inadequately treated with current drugs – generally off-label oral ...