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Previously, a woman’s treatment options in Kenya were: drugs to ease the pain or to reduce heavy bleeding; open surgery to remove the fibroids (myomectomy) or the entire womb (hysterectomy); ...

Discover 5 powerful natural approaches to manage uterine fibroids, which affect 80% of women of color, plus understand when ...

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As a gynecologist, I often encounter patients with symptoms such as pelvic discomfort, abnormal menstrual bleeding, or ...

This quiet compromise, often made without a second thought, can lead to overlooked health issues and one of the most common being uterine fibroids. Despite being non-cancerous, fibroids affect a huge ...

My OB/GYN thought differently and sent me for an ultrasound, which showed that my fibroids had more than doubled in size in two years. They were squishing my uterus, causing it to bleed.

In turn this has increased the size of fibroids that can be treated using minimally invasive routes. Traditionally hysterectomy has been the main modality of treatment of uterine fibroids ...