OAK BROOK, Ill. -- A noninvasive ultrasound procedure effectively shrinks uterine fibroids and significantly relieves fibroid-related symptoms in women, according to the results of a multicenter ...

CHICAGO - A totally noninvasive procedure using high-intensity ultrasound waves to heat and destroy uterine fibroid tissue significantly relieves fibroid-related symptoms in women, according to the ...

Suzanne Leblang, M.D., radiologist said, "This is the patient's stomach and here is the fibroid where the uterus is sitting right above the bladder." The plan of attack: Exablate 2000, a newly ...

As the FDA has taken steps to limit the use of laparoscopic power morcellators in gynecological procedures, surgeons have had to seek out other methods to perform hysterectomies and myomectomies, or ...

NEW YORK - Women with fibroids may now have another non-surgical option for dealing with the troublesome condition: ultrasound. Hysterectomy has been the standard treatment for these tumors in the ...

Their goal, according to Segars, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the Division of Women's Health Research at Johns Hopkins, was to help guide clinicians and patients in making ...

Mar. 24 -- TUESDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- Uterine artery embolization is an effective, non-surgical therapy for fibroids, even after a woman has had other treatments such as focused ultrasound ...

Uterine leiomyomas, more commonly referred to as fibroids, are the most common benign pelvic tumors experienced by women. 1 An estimated 70% to 80% of women will develop fibroids during their ...

A NEW WAY TO TREAT UTERINE FIBROIDS. FIBROIDS ARE BENIGN MUSCLE CELLS, AND THEY CAN GROW AS LARGE AS A MELON AND BE QUITE PAINFUL. THE NEW PROCEDURE IS CALLED UH-SESSA. IT’S MINIMALLY INVASIVE ...

WASHINGTON -- After a new ultrasound device won support of a federal panel Thursday, women with painful fibroids in their uterus may have a much-anticipated, nonsurgical option to zap and break up the ...