Women diagnosed with these common growths had a more than 80 percent higher risk of later developing heart disease than their ...

More than 26 million U.S. women have the typically benign tumors, which can often cause debilitating symptoms and other ...

Erica Chidi, co-founder and CEO of Loom, a women's health education platform, is making her private health journey -- a six-year battle with uterine fibroids -- public, she said, in hopes of making ...

Doctors in Singapore successfully removed a so-called giant uterine fibroid weighing about 61 lbs. (28 kilograms) from a 53-year-old woman's abdomen, according to a new report of the case. Medically ...

Uterine fibroids are benign (not cancerous) growths in the uterus. Also known as leiomyomas, fibroids affect most women at some point in their lives. They generally cause no symptoms or health ...

Anoushka Shankar once had uterus removal due to fibroids. Learn what fibroids are and the early symptoms women should watch for. Renowned sitarist Anoushka Shankar, known for her global music ...