CORPUS CHRISTI — About 200,000 women have their uterus removed every year due to severe symptoms and one in four women of reproductive age suffer from fibroids. Caroline — who asked us not to mention ...

When fibroids — benign tumors that grow on uterine walls — lead to symptoms like heavy bleeding and pain, many doctors recommend hysterectomy. In fact, 30 percent of the 600,000 hysterectomies ...

"The first surprise was the precision and effectiveness of embolization on the possibility of devascularizing a large number of fibroids and the ability of the uterus to heal favorably as well as the ...

Back in March, I called in sick to work for the first time. I have never taken a sick day — ever. And I have been working since I was 16 years old, so you know something was wrong. But that day, for ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In women with symptomatic fibroids -- benign tumors inside the uterus that can lead to pain, abnormal bleeding and other symptoms -- a treatment called uterine artery ...

Tonya Dawson had never heard of fibroids until she started bleeding after boot camp workouts around 10 years ago. “It wasn’t much, but it was there,” Dawson said. Dawson had a myomectomy, an operation ...

A new Medicare reimbursement code for uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) could reduce barriers to adopting the procedure, which can involve the use of microsphere technology made by Rockland-based ...

Condoleezza Rice, President Bush’s choice to be the next secretary of state, underwent surgery Friday to treat noncancerous growths in the uterus, a White House official said. The national security ...