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 ...
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, ...
Uterine fibroids, also known as leiomyomas, are the most common benign (noncancerous) tumors made of smooth muscle and connective tissue that develop in the myometrium layer of the uterus. They are ...
FAIRFAX, Va. (July 9, 2024)— Among women who have personally been diagnosed with uterine fibroids, more than half (53%) were presented with a hysterectomy, while fewer than 1 in 5 (20%) were presented ...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Uterine fibroids could be an early warning flag for heart disease among women, a new study says. Women diagnosed with uterine fibroids have a more than 80% ...
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 ...
Fran Drescher says trauma from a home invasion in her 20s contributed to her uterine cancer diagnosis at 42, urging women not ...
For the first time outside of a clinical trial, a woman has given birth to a healthy baby born from a transplanted uterus. Mallory was born without a uterus, a condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster ...
Doctors in Lucknow successfully treated a young woman born with two uteruses and two vaginas through a series of rare, ...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital helped deliver two sets of twins born from moms with a double uterus Andrea Mabry/University of Alabama at Birmingham An Alabama hospital has now ...