NEW YORK - Women with fibroids may now have another non-surgical option for dealing with the troublesome condition: ultrasound. Hysterectomy has been the standard treatment for these tumors in the ...

Their goal, according to Segars, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the Division of Women's Health Research at Johns Hopkins, was to help guide clinicians and patients in making ...

That ultrasound revealing fibroids might have left you wondering why you drew the short straw while your friends remain fibroid-free. These muscular growths in the uterus affect an astonishing number ...

If you find yourself one of the 80% of women who receive a fibroids diagnosis, don’t panic: There’s an arsenal of uterine fibroids treatment options available. Fibroids, also called leiomyomas or ...

DOCTOR A NEW WAY TO TREAT UTERINE FIBROIDS FIBROIDS ARE BENIGN MUSCLE CELLS AND THEY CAN GROW AS LARGE AS A MELON AND BE QUITE PAINFUL. THE NEW PROCEDURE IS CALLED ASSESSA. IT’S MINIMALLY INVASIVE ...

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, ...

Up to 80% of women develop fibroids by the age of 50. Fibroids are non-cancerous smooth muscle tumors. They are characterized according to position and size within the uterus. They can occur in the ...

Many women, at some point in their lives, will experience one or more of the symptoms related to uterine fibroids, including heavy menstrual bleeding, bloating, back pain, and pressure on their ...