Roland Martin talks to author and co-founder of Hope Beyond Fibroid Gessie Thompson about the staggering number of black women struggling with Fibroids and…

  Dr. Afriye Amerson is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist. During her training at George Washington Medical School, Dr. Amerson also studied Eastern and African…

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Uterine fibroids are benign (non-cancerous) tumors of the uterus and the most common GYN problem for women. By the age of 50, about 80% of…

In the United States, black women are two to three times more likely to have fibroids than white women. These fibroids, which are noncancerous growths that…