Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, a board-certified OB/GYN, explains to PEOPLE what fibroids are and how likely it is for the condition to go undetected Sheila Baylis is the former editor for PEOPLE's health ...

From unbearable pain to feeling no symptoms at all, women with uterine fibroids can have vastly different experiences. While these growths affect a large percentage of women, health advocates say they ...

Doctors in Singapore successfully removed a so-called giant uterine fibroid weighing about 61 lbs. (28 kilograms) from a 53-year-old woman's abdomen, according to a new report of the case. Medically ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — “I looked like I was six months pregnant. I was 176 lbs.,” said Bethany Strong. At 38-years-old, Strong had developed a bulge in her mid-section — something she chalked up ...

The weight of the growth inside her had made her bedridden, according to a new report. A woman in Singapore had a 61 lb. tumor removed from her uterus after she finally visited the hospital because ...

A 36-year-old woman presented with a lump in her abdomen during her first pregnancy. She told clinicians she had noticed the lump before she became pregnant. She had no pain or other symptoms. The ...

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.

July is the time for the beach, ice cream...and fibroid awareness. Yup, it’s Uterine Fibroid Awareness Month. If you haven’t heard of uterine fibroids, which are benign tumors that grow on the walls ...

Lasers can be used to shrink fibroid tumors, British physicians report, a finding that may offer women a minimally invasive alternative to hysterectomies. About 20% to 40% of women over the age of 35 ...

Sharon Stone is urging women to always "get a second opinion" from medical professionals after she received a misdiagnosis that turned out to be a "large fibroid tumor." On Tuesday, The Specialist ...