Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Uterine fibroids are common. It's common for women to have uterine fibroids, which are smooth, usually benign muscle tumors of the ...

This article originally appeared on Health. Fact: Most women will get fibroids. By the age of 50, 80% of black women and 70% of white women develop these benign tumors that grow within the wall of the ...

Fibroids have plagued our community for far too long. According to a recent study, 40% to 80% of women are most likely to develop fibroids by the time they reach 50 years old, with Black women three ...

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 ...

Uterine fibroids are one of the most common reasons women seek gynecologic evaluation and help. Although fibroids are extremely common— three out of four women will get one or more during her lifetime ...

Uterine fibroids affect up to 80 percent of people with a uterus (and are two to three times more likely to occur in Black women)—and uterine fibroids symptoms tend to be “loud and obnoxious,” says ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Fibroids, also known as uterine fibroids, ...

Uterine fibroids are a common benign gynecological condition affecting many women of reproductive age. However, not all cases ...

If you find yourself one of the 80% of women who receive a fibroids diagnosis, don’t panic: There’s an arsenal of uterine fibroids treatment options available. Fibroids, also called leiomyomas or ...

Women of African descent are four times more likely to have uterine fibroids. Although many of these cases are asymptomatic ...

It’s common for women to have uterine fibroids, which are smooth, usually benign muscle tumors of the uterus, says Dr. G. Thomas Ruiz, an obstetrician-gynecologist at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical ...