As July and Fibroid Awareness Month comes to a close, I wanted to take this opportunity to discuss a common issue affecting many women. Fibroids can affect up to 80% of women by the age of 50 and is even more common in African-American women. Here’s what you need to know: What are fibroids? Fibroids
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Endometriosis is a debilitatingly painful reproductive health condition that happens when tissue from the lining of the uterus grows on other organs. (Or, as some experts say, when tissue that is similar to uterine lining but different—and able to make its own estrogen—migrates to other organs.) In the essay, Dunham discusses how she came to the decision to
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The pelvic floor is a group of muscles that are located at the bottom of the pelvis. These muscles stretch from the pubic bone to the tailbone or coccyx (front to back) and from hip bone to hip bone (side to side). As the floor of the core, these muscles have several important functions: support
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