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 ...

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Uterine fibroids could be an early warning flag for heart disease among women, a new study says. Women diagnosed with uterine fibroids have a more than 80% ...

Heavy bleeding, pelvic pain and rapid weight gain are all symptoms of uterine fibroids, a condition that can have serious implications for a woman’s fertility and overall well-being. The noncancerous ...

UTERINE FIBROIDS ARE COMMON, NON-CANCEROUS GROWTHS THAT DEVELOP IN OR AROUND THE UTERUS. THEY OFTEN DON’T CAUSE ANY SYMPTOMS, BUT WHEN THEY DO, THEY CAN BE DEBILITATING. IN THOSE CASES, WOMEN OFTEN ...

If you’re young, healthy, and have no medical history, you’re unlikely to doubt pelvic pain, heavy periods, or bloating. In most cases, it might not even mean anything. But in some cases, it could ...

Painful experience has taught Erika Moore that benign doesn’t always mean harmless. Moore, a biomedical engineer at the University of Maryland in College Park, lives with noncancerous tumors in the ...

The study which was based on earlier research found that women who suffered from uterine fibroids may have an increased risk ...

Lupita Nyong’o is opening up about her more-than-decade-long battle with uterine fibroids. In honor of Fibroid Awareness Month, the 42-year-old Black Panther actress detailed her own personal struggle ...

A group of Black women lawmakers is leading a new effort to address the racial disparities surrounding uterine fibroids and uterine cancer. On Tuesday, Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela ...

The projections come as data shows increases in uterine cancer cases and deaths. Uterine cancer cases in the U.S. will rise significantly by 2050, with Black women three times more likely to die from ...