Fibroids in the News 
Posted by
Tina on July 2nd, 2010
Fibroid Relief is excited by a recent announcement made at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Rome, Italy. A study shows promising use of an existing contraceptive drug to decrease the size of uterine fibroids without surgery! Click here for more details.
Posted by
Tina on June 28th, 2010
A new blood test in the works may one day help a women determine when she will reach menopause. This may provide women and their physicians with another tool in the treatment of uterine fibroids.
Click here to read the article.
Posted by
Jade on June 18th, 2010
This week, I attended a Fibroid Education event that a local hospital hosted. I was so excited to hear about them taking an initiative in educating women about Uterine Fibroids! Dr. Anthony Spinelli and Dr. Pradeep Rajagopalan gave an excellent presentation about all of the treatment options for uterine fibroids, covering both the advantages and [...]
Posted by
admin on May 26th, 2010
Fibroid Relief conducted its third and most successful free public information event on uterine fibroids on April 27 at the Marriott Marina del Ray in Los Angeles. Over 125 women attended “Fibroid Relief At Last,” an interactive program featuring UCLA clinicians, a naturopathic doctor and well-known patient advocate, Erin. “We received very positive feedback from [...]
Posted by
Tina on May 24th, 2010
I just returned from the ACOG Annual Meeting in San Francisco (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists). Imagine spending three days in an exhibit hall filled with every product and gadget your gynecologist could ever want or need. I’ll leave it up to your imagination!
In my ideal world, I would have liked to [...]
Posted by
Tina on May 5th, 2010
Thanks to funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development, part of the National Institutes of Health, researchers at Northwestern University are investigating the use of a class of drugs called selective progesterone receptor modulators as a possible long term treatment option for uterine fibroids. This is very positive news and [...]
Posted by
Jade on April 21st, 2010
A year after their procedures at the Mayo Clinic, 97 percent of the women who had Focused Ultrasound treatments for uterine fibroids said their symptoms had improved. Ninety percent considered their improvement either “considerable” or “excellent.”
So reported Gina Hesley, M.D., an interventional radiologist at Mayo, who is studying the long-term effectiveness of Focused Ultrasound treatments [...]
Posted by
Jade on April 8th, 2010
Erin S., a blogger and patient advocate for the Foundation’s Patient Support Organization, Fibroid Relief, appeared as a guest on the hit daytime TV talk show, “The Doctors.”
Erin appeared on the April 9 segment about uterine fibroids. She shared her story about living with the condition and being successfully treated with Focused Ultrasound. The segment will be [...]
Posted by
Tina on March 31st, 2010
A local television station in Orlando, Florida recently featured this segment on uterine fibroids and uterine fibroid embolization (UFE). The station interviewed a local patient who chose to treat her fibroid with UFE. Her results were very positive. The video also references statistics about uterine fibroids, including higher rates of incidence among African-American women.
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