Dr. Elizabeth Stewart
One in six couples in the United Stated would like to have a baby but can't. In this Mayo Clinic Radio Health Minute, Dr. Elizabeth [...]
According to the National Institutes of Health, about fifteen percent of couples in the U.S. are unable to get pregnant. In this Mayo Clinic Radio [...]
Lacey Berning dreamed of having a little girl. What she never imagined, however, was that the journey to that child would be wrought with delays and heartache. But Lacey never gave up hope, and with support from a team of Mayo Clinic infertility specialists, she and her husband finally realized their dream of becoming parents.
One in six couples in the United Stated would like to have a baby but can't. In this Mayo Clinic Radio Health Minute, Dr. Elizabeth [...]
According to the National Institutes of Health, about fifteen percent of couples in the U.S. are unable to get pregnant. In this Mayo Clinic Radio [...]
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm 34, and my husband and I have been trying to get pregnant for more than a year with no luck. My [...]
Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 10/21/17 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. On the Mayo Clinic Radio podcast, Dr. Karthik Ghosh, director of the Breast [...]
After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the U.S. Breast cancer can occur in both men and women, but [...]
After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the U.S. Breast cancer can occur in both men and women, but [...]
In this Mayo Clinic Radio Health Minute, Dr. Elizabeth Stewart provides a look at the impact uterine fibroids have on women. To listen, click [...]
In this Mayo Clinic Radio Health Minute, Dr. Elizabeth Stewart comments on the impact of uterine fibroids on African American women. To listen, click [...]
In this Mayo Clinic Radio Health Minute, Dr. Elizabeth Stewart comments on the impact of uterine fibroids on African American women. To listen, click [...]
Mayo Clinic expert demonstrates women have options that preserve the uterus ROCHESTER, Minn. — A 47-year-old African-American woman has heavy menstrual bleeding and iron-deficiency anemia. She reports the frequent need to urinate during the night and throughout the day. A colonoscopy is negative and an ultrasonography shows a modestly enlarged uterus with three uterine fibroids, noncancerous growths of the uterus. She is not planning to become pregnant. What are her options? Elizabeth (Ebbie) Stewart, M.D., chair of Reproductive Endocrinology at Mayo Clinic, says the woman has several options, but determining her best option is guided by her symptoms, the size, number and location of the fibroids, as well as where she is in her reproductive life span. These options are highlighted in a Clinical Practice article by Dr. Stewart in this month’s New England Journal of Medicine. “Uterine-conserving therapy should be an available option for women even if there is no plan for childbearing,” says Dr. Stewart, a uterine fibroid researcher. “Although myomectomy, a surgical procedure to remove uterine fibroids, is the traditional alternative to hysterectomy, there are other options for medical and interventional treatment. Before determining which alternative therapy may be an option, the symptoms caused by fibroids must first be assessed.” MEDIA CONTACT: Kelley Luckstein, Mayo Clinic Public Affairs, 507-284-5005 or newsbureau@mayo.edu Journalists: Sound bites with Dr. Stewart are available in the downloads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6j-Lc2JqE