What are Uterine Fibroids?

An article from Dr. Steven R. Goldstein M.D, a top Gynecologist in NYC. What are uterine fibroids? Fibroids are the most common benign pelvic tumors. They are hormonally responsive to estrogen and, thus, they are not seen prior to women getting their first period and they will shrink in size after menopause when no more estrogen is produced. By age fifty, approximately 70% of Caucasian women and 80% of Black women will have some uterine fibroids. Most will be asymptomatic and incidental, althou...

Information about Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

Recently, I have had a run of several young women who have presented (accompanied by their mothers) having received a diagnosis elsewhere of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). They have looked this up online and they are relatively distraught having learned about issues of infertility, insulin resistance, and a predilection later in life for diabetes. None of these recent cases truly had the entity itself. What they had was not unusual for late adolescence (women in their teens and even early t...