Just as external sex organs such as the labia and clitoris can look vastly different on different people, so can those that are internal. Dr. Laura Purdy, chief medical officer at Wisp, a sexual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Daye Covington visited her doctor for a routine physical last year, she expressed concern about weight gain in her belly that ...

A recent study has found that Black women may be at a higher risk for uterine cancer because of harmful chemicals in some hair straightening products. These chemicals affect your body’s hormones.

Thanks to modern medicine, most types of cancer are on the decline today. However, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report shows that uterine cancer didn’t get the memo. “Uterine ...

Uterine cancer forms in the uterus, and is the most common gynecological cancer in the United States. There are two main types of uterine cancer. Endometrial cancer is a type of uterine cancer that ...

The uterus is a part of the female reproductive system where babies are conceived and grow. Normally, the uterus is positioned straight and upright. However, in about 20-30 percent of women, the ...

The New York Times is following a team of doctors at the Cleveland Clinic as they attempt the first uterus transplant in the United States. If successful, the procedure will let women who’ve had a ...

Uterine fibroids, also known as leiomyomas, are the most common benign (noncancerous) tumors made of smooth muscle and connective tissue that develop in the myometrium layer of the uterus. They are ...

As she entered mid-life, Connie Koller was losing almost a week of every month to her abnormally heavy menstrual periods. Employed full time in the accounting department of Good Samaritan Hospital, ...

When Chelsea Jovanovich was 15, she learned that she didn’t have a uterus. That was a result of her having Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) Syndrome, a rare congenital disorder that is estimated ...