Molecular discoveries may help improve treatments for labor and pain. When labor starts, the uterus must produce steady, ...

A rare case of a 30-year-old woman diagnosed with a 16-kg giant uterine fibroid emphasizes the need for routine pelvic exams ...

Research to help reduce inflammation in the uterus of livestock animals could help pave the way for developing new drugs to ...

University of Iowa doctoral student Katie Colling is making progress in identifying hormones that are effective at combating ...

Disorganized collagen in old C-section scars causes abnormal placental attachment in uterus in future pregnancies, not ...

Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually ...

Fran Drescher’s road to a uterine cancer diagnosis was anything but easy. The actress, best known for her role as Fran Fine in the hit sitcom The Nanny, spoke about her ordeal at the Chasing Cancer ...

Fibroids and uterine cancer can both cause growths to form in the uterus. Certain symptoms can also overlap. A doctor can determine whether you have fibroids or uterine cancer. Fibroids are benign ...

Uterine cancer is cancer of the uterus. After diagnosis, doctors determine how far the cancer has spread and assign a stage between 1 and 4. The higher the number, the more advanced the cancer.

Treating Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: What's Best? Menometrorrhagia-excessive and prolonged uterine bleeding at irregular or frequent intervals [1] —is most often caused by uterine fibroids, and symptom ...

Uterine fibroids are tumors that grow in or on your uterus, or womb. Fibroids aren’t cancerous and hardly ever turn into cancer. They're made of smooth muscle cells and other tissue that grows in or ...

Uterine polyps are fleshy growths that appear on the inner lining of the uterus and extend into the cavity of the uterus. They are usually benign, but a small minority of them may be precancerous.