I thought I had cancer, I never in a million years thought she was going to show me a baby," Krista Sciscoe, 33, told ...

Roman physicians recognized as early as 200 AD that women often have benign tumors in the walls of their uterus. Today, experts estimate that by age 50, some 70 percent of white women and more than 80 ...

Share on Pinterest Fibroids were linked to 81% higher heart disease risk in a new study. Image credit: Maskot/Getty Images Researchers affiliated with the Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...

Women with uterine fibroids had a disproportionately higher risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in a study of real-world claims data. Fibroids may therefore be a marker for ...

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Women younger than 40 with fibroids may face even greater odds of developing heart disease, according to a new study. Scientists say more research is needed to understand the connection. In a new ...

Heart disease has long been the top killer of women in the United States, but new research suggests uterine fibroids, which many may not even be aware they have, could be putting them at a ...

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% higher risk of developing heart disease, ...

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, ...

Uterine fibroids—common, often missed and frequently painful growths made of muscle and other tissue inside the uterus—may dramatically raise the risk of heart disease, a new paper finds. In a study ...

Long-term heart disease risk among women diagnosed with uterine fibroids was more than 80% higher than in women without uterine fibroids, according to a 10-year study of more than 2.7 million U.S.

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 ...