Fibroids affect most women, but Black women face higher risk, earlier onset and more severe symptoms, experts say.

This National Infertility Awareness Week, The Root spoke with an expert who broke down early red flags, barriers to treatment ...

A woman has become a blood donor after she was told she had fibroid tumors and had to undergo a full hysterectomy.

Brionna Johnson was just 17 weeks into her pregnancy with her second child when she began suffering from multiple large ...

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Mama June Shannon is back for another season of Mama June: From Hot to Not on Friday, March 13. Last year, the show focused on the family coping with Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell’s death after her cancer ...

“Mama June” Shannon was worried that she had cancer nearly three years after her daughter Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell’s death. “I had a total hysterectomy unexpectedly last year [in] April. It was not ...

June "Mama June" Shannon is opening up about a recent health scare she faced, roughly two years after losing her daughter Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell. “I had a total hysterectomy unexpectedly last year ...

*Lupita Nyong’o is using her platform to shed light on a health struggle that has followed her for over a decade. The acclaimed actress sat down with the “Today” show on February 25, pulling back the ...

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Slow-growing abnormalities often go unnoticed for years, masked as mild discomfort, heavy periods or digestive problems. [Courtesy] In Kenya, many women live with silent internal growths — fibroids, ...