DALLAS, Texas -- Aprill Lane knows exactly what it's like to face fertility issues. "It's heavy," Lane told ABC affiliate WFAA. "It's a huge burden as a female feeling like you are failing the one ...

A group of Black women lawmakers is leading a new effort to address the racial disparities surrounding uterine fibroids and uterine cancer. On Tuesday, Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Providing provocative views on racism, pop culture, and mental health. Although uterine fibroids are not an uncommon topic, the ...

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 ...

At a time when many women are supposed to be at their elegant best, reveling in their feminism and enjoying the beauty of motherhood, usually come the unwanted guest called uterine fibroids, intruding ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uterine fibroids are tumors that grow in or on your uterus, or womb. Fibroids aren’t cancerous and hardly ever turn into cancer. They're made of smooth muscle cells and other tissue that grows in or ...

Roman physicians recognized as early as 200 AD that women often have benign tumors in the walls of their uterus. Today, experts estimate that by age 50, some 70 percent of white women and more than 80 ...

Painful experience has taught Erika Moore that benign doesn’t always mean harmless. Moore, a biomedical engineer at the University of Maryland in College Park, lives with noncancerous tumors in the ...