Lupita Nyong'o joins a growing list of Black women celebrities who are taking on fibroids and sharing their struggles. Lupita Nyong’o is using her voice for something far bigger than the big ...
U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland convened a roundtable on women’s health research at the Capitol last month, drawing together lawmakers, advocates, and prominent cultural figures to address ...
Uterine fibroids that can cause chronic pain and disrupt pregnancy plans disproportionately affect Black women, and research that would help women and girls is underfunded, experts say. The ...
Historically treated as simply “bad periods,” uterine fibroids impact 80 percent of Black women, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but what happens after treatment of fibroids is ...
Uterine fibroids remain one of the most widespread yet under-discussed women’s health issues in America today. These benign growths develop in the uterine wall during reproductive years and affect up ...
Women with uterine fibroids, compared with those without the benign gynecological tumors, have a greater risk of developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) up to 10 years down the line, ...