A noninvasive ultrasound procedure effectively shrinks uterine fibroids and significantly relieves fibroid-related symptoms in women, according to a recent clinical trial. Magnetic resonance-guided, ...

HOUSTON, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A new non-invasive uterine fibroid treatment was featured today at the Baylor College of Medicine Department Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds highlighting the ...

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 ...

Given the morbidity associated with hysterectomy, less-invasive options for treating symptomatic uterine fibroids are appealing. In this manufacturer-sponsored, prospective, multicenter trial, ...

August 2, 2007 -- Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) is an effective treatment for uterine leiomyomata (fibroids) and is associated with sustained improvement in symptoms, ...

Israeli devicemaker InSightec has adapted the label for its ultrasound technology designed to treat uterine fibroids, the ExAblate device, in order for it to be available to women who want to keep ...

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 ...

Uterine fibroids are benign (not cancerous) growths in the uterus. Also known as leiomyomas, fibroids affect most women at some point in their lives. They generally cause no symptoms or health ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have, for what is believed to be the first time, used a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique called diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI), a technique that images the movement, ...

Suffering from fibroids during pregnancy was a painful and difficult experience. Here's what you can learn from my experience. Way before I got married and conceived my daughter, my OB/GYN sent me in ...

The first time Ashley Adamo realized something might be wrong was more than 20 years ago. One sign was her cramps. Sure, most of her friends had them before their periods. But Adamo's were so bad they ...

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 ...