Many Black women have been taught to ignore or adapt to the pain they feel during that time of the month. Many people ...

Andrea Lukes, MD, MHSc, FACOG, is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist and the founder and CEO of the Carolina Women’s Research and Wellness Center in Durham ...

Kristina Omari was 42 years old when her OB-GYN, a Black woman as well, recommended she get a hysterectomy. Omari had dutifully attended her check-ups every year, but this was the first time the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Those who hope to become pregnant and deliver a healthy baby know that uterine fibroids may cause complications. Uterine fibroids are benign tumors, and their size, number and location ...

Identification of fibroids on ultrasound can prematurely close evaluation, despite frequent co-existence and a ...

After a certain age, a lot of adults get the question: 'When are you going to have kids?' For a growing number of men and women, the answer isn't as simple as snapping your fingers. As part of ...

In a society where health care costs can be overwhelming, Khaleelah I. L. Harris and Yasmine Griffiths are taking a stand to support Black women facing the financial burdens of fibroid treatments.

Lupita Nyong’o thought her symptoms were normal until 2014. She was fatigued, pre-anemic and burdened by pelvic pain once a month. Her Christian sex education did little to contradict her experience. ...

July marks Fibroid Awareness Month. Fibroids likely affect you or someone you know because 80% of all women have this condition — marked by non-cancerous growths of the uterus. I am one of those women ...

Although the most common symptom of uterine fibroids is heavy menstrual bleeding, irregular patterns of bleeding that cumulatively may be considered heavy bleeding can also occur. Women with uterine ...

Black women are more likely to get the noncancerous growths, at a younger age, and have higher rates of hysterectomy. A growing movement calls for... Kristina Omari was 42 years old when her OB-GYN, a ...