July is Fibroid Awareness Month, a condition that impacts hundreds of thousands of women. While the cause isn't well understood, the non-cancerous growths can cause pain, pregnancy loss, and ...

LOS ANGELES Christina Simon is working hard to learn the ins and outs and ups and downs of tennis. For more than two years, she played through the pain of uterine fibroids. She's not alone. As many as ...

A minimally-invasive procedure has been shown to successfully treat uterine fibroids while requiring little downtime for the patient and preserving the woman’s uterus. Called uterine fibroid ...

was strapped to a gurney with an IV stuck in her arm, headed for the operating room where a surgeon was waiting to perform her hysterectomy, when an anesthesiologist noticed the elevated blood-sugar ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There's a new technique that's said to make a common medical procedure for women far less painful. It's an improvement on a procedure that's been around for years to shrink ...

More than 25 million American women, ages 15 to 50, have uterine fibroids, which are non-cancerous growths in the uterus that can cause pain and abnormal bleeding. For some women, a hysterectomy - ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is warning women that a surgical procedure used to eliminate growths in the uterus could inadvertently spread cancer to other parts of the body. The ...

CARMEL, Ind. (WISH) — Ascension St. Vincent Carmel is the first hospital in the state to offer fibroid removal without cutting the skin. The procedure uses a radio frequency to reduce the growth of ...

UTERINE FIBROIDS ARE COMMON, NON-CANCEROUS GROWTHS THAT DEVELOP IN OR AROUND THE UTERUS. THEY OFTEN DON’T CAUSE ANY SYMPTOMS, BUT WHEN THEY DO, THEY CAN BE DEBILITATING. IN THOSE CASES, WOMEN OFTEN ...

WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration is warning women that a device-assisted procedure for treating fibroids could inadvertently spread cancer from the uterus to other parts of the body. The ...

A minimally-invasive procedure has been shown to successfully treat uterine fibroids while requiring little downtime for the patient and preserving the woman's uterus. "This is another treatment ...