When July rolls around, I am painfully reminded that it is Fibroids Awareness Month. I am one of the 90 percent of Black women affected by fibroids by age 50. I was diagnosed with ... Read More
Endometriosis
What Does Your Pelvic Pain Mean?
Don’t let pelvic pain put a damper on your weight-loss resolution – i.e., that sexy six pack you’ve been dreaming of all year long. While mainly associated with your monthly ... Read More
Living With Fibroids: #AskTheExpert With Dr. Linda Bradley
Uterine fibroids are the most common, non-cancerous tumors in women of childbearing age. Current statistics show that African American women are 3 to 5 times more likely to develop ... Read More
Tia Mowry’s Best Medicine For Endometriosis Is Food #BDOBookshelf
Tia Mowry-Hardrict got candid about her fear of expanding her family due to her struggle with endometriosis, telling PEOPLE magazine, “I do suffer from endometriosis, so there’s a ... Read More
Black Women & Endometriosis
Endometriosis uniquely affects African-American women. Traditional thinking was that endometriosis was a condition of white women but that conventional thinking is rapidly ... Read More
Tia Mowry-Hardrict Opens Up About Endometriosis & Pregnancy Challenges: “I Don’t Want To Be Let Down”
Tia Mowry-Hardrict knows the joys of growing up with a sibling, but she's concerned about growing her young family due to her battle with a little talked about condition in Black ... Read More
Pelvic Pain: The Silent Burden
A high proportion of reproductive-age women may be experiencing pelvic pain that goes untreated, according to a study by researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the ... Read More
Natural Remedies For Endometriosis
Chronic pain and bloating in a woman’s abdomen may point to an abnormality of the endometrial tissue. According to research or other evidence, the following self-care steps may ... Read More
10 Changes In Your Body Black Women Should Never Ignore
Women around the world struggle to balance work, home, children, errands and so on. Their list of things to do never ends and in this hectic lifestyle, a large number of them end ... Read More
When Sex Hurts: 10 Most Common Causes Of Pain During Sex
“Ouch! That hurts!” is one of the last things you want to say during sex and pain is definitely not what you want to feel during sex. Not only can it ruin the mood, but it can ... Read More
Coffee May Lower Risk Of Endometrial Cancer
Listen up coffee lovers! There's yet another reason to feel good about your coffee addiction. According to a recent study conducted by the Imperial College London in the U.K., ... Read More
5 Surgeries To Avoid
At least 12,000 Americans die each year from unnecessary surgery, according to a Journal of the American Medical Association report. And tens of thousands more suffer ... Read More
What Causes Endometriosis In Black Women?
Endometriosis is a chronic condition that affects more than 5 million, or 10 percent, of American women. The condition occurs when tissue lining the interior uterus walls grows ... Read More
Endometriosis Pain Revealed
(BlackDoctor.org) -- Women with endometriosis often have several types of chronic pain conditions because their abnormal growths develop a nerve supply that communicates with the ... Read More