There’s no doubt that women’s healthcare has been seriously understudied and underfunded for far too long. Many of us have heard terms like uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts, but few of us — unless ...

FKA twigs is opening up about a health struggle that she says "knocked" her "confidence as a woman" in hopes of being a role model for others Stephanie Petit is a Royals Editor, Writer and Reporter at ...

Medically reviewed by Cordelia Nwankwo, MD Key Takeaways Uterine fibroids are muscular tumors that can cause bleeding between menstrual periods.Endometrial hyperplasia causes the endometrium to ...

This week Sen. Kamala Harris introduced legislation that puts a spotlight on a painful health problem that disproportionately affects Black women: uterine fibroids. "We don't talk nearly enough about ...

Fibroid tumors are common in women, and can be really painful if untreated Treatment options range from hormone treatments to hysterectomy Singer FKA Twigs took to Instagram Wednesday to reveal some ...

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 ...

In 2007, the late Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) wrote an op-ed calling for passage of her bill to increase research funding and public education for uterine fibroids. She stressed the need for ...

The Legislature and Governor approved the creation and funding of a uterine fibroid research database in 2022.

In December of 2017, FKA Twigs underwent laparoscopic surgery to have six large fibroid tumors—which she likened to two apples, three kiwis, a few strawberries, and “a fruit bowl of pain every ...

When Jennifer Medina of Queens learned she had uterine fibroids, benign tumors that grow in and around the walls of the uterus, her gynecologist suggested two treatments known to work — getting a ...