For women, the reality of living with uterine fibroids (or knowing a sister, mother or aunt who does) is overwhelmingly common. It often feels like an unwelcome family heirloom, quietly passed down ...

About 80 percent of women will develop fibroids. Portia sits down with two women who have fibroids to discuss how it affects their daily lives. Two surgeons join the conversation to discuss causes of ...

Gynaecologist and Obstetrician Specialist Dr. Promise Sefogah has highlighted key risk factors associated with fibroids in women.

Uterine fibroids remain one of the most widespread yet under-discussed women’s health issues in America today. These benign growths develop in the uterine wall during reproductive years and affect up ...

Uterine fibroids—common, often missed and frequently painful growths made of muscle and other tissue inside the uterus—may dramatically raise the risk of heart disease, a new paper finds. In a study ...

A 10-year study, led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Katherine Hartmann, M.D., Ph.D., disrupts conventional wisdom that uterine fibroids cause ...

Researchers affiliated with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia recently studied the relationship between uterine fibroids and atherosclerotic ...