Women with painful fibroids can get long-term relief without surgery, a study of 1,278 women said. All of them underwent uterine fibroid embolization (UFE, also known as uterine artery embolization or UAE). Three years after the minimally invasive procedure, fewer than 15% of women needed surgery or a repeat UFE.

The study was led by UFE pioneer Scott C. Goodwin, MD, who chairs the department of radiological sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Goodwin, who prefers the more precise term UAE, says the procedure offers "very good" long-term outcomes. The quality of living after UFE is good. And you have quicker period of recovery and fewer complications than with the surgical alternatives," he informed WebMD.

Which is more, Goodwin pointed out that the women in the study were treated at different medical centers, not just those tremendously skilled at performing UFE. He mentioned that it was especially important. You can conclude that UFE done by someone with the correct credentials will have the same effect wherever it is done.

While 86% of the women who chose UFE said they'd recommend it to their friend or family member, not all of them get ride of all the symptoms. Three years after the procedure, approximately 13% of the women underwent surgery for fibroid symptoms and another 2% underwent another UFE. That rate is comparable to the standard seen in patients who undergo myomectomy, surgical removal of fibroids. Each year after myomectomy, about 5% of patients see their fibroids return.

Throughout the world, some 25,000 women undergo UFE each year. Goodwin introduced it to the U.S. in 1996. Nevertheless the procedure is all the more considered "developmental" by many gynecologists, including Bryan Cowan, MD, chair of the University of Mississippi Medical Centre department of gynecology and a spokesman for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In his opinion the three-year follow-up is short. He often says to his patients that he can take their fibroids out but he cannot change them. After myomectomy, one-fourth of them will see fibroids come back -- but that is five or six years later. So, according to Bryan Cowan, these people in the Goodwin read have not entered that time threshold.

I’d like to mention here that fibroids are benign tumors -- not cancers -- that arise inside the uterus; doctors ring them uterine myomas or leiomyomata. As a rule, they normally don't cause symptoms. But when they do, women may suffer excessive or painful bleeding during menstruation, bleeding between menstrual periods, abdominal pressure, frequent urination, pain during sex, and or low back pain. Removal of the uterus -- hysterectomy -- is the only sure way to stop fibroids and to make sure they never come back. Yet, hysterectomy results in sterility. It is a fact that fibroids are the actuation for up to 40% of the 150,000 to 200,000 hysterectomies performed each year in the U.S.

Caring much about raising of the birth rate and about healthy living of children and mothers in my country and all over the world, I’m going to pay much attention to the question of the women’s health. This article will be first. I hope it will be really useful for you as it is based on the results of very important researches.

It is important for women, especially those aged 18-24, to consume 400 micrograms of folic acid daily through supplements, fortified foods, or both in addition to a folate-rich diet. It will help to prevent serious birth defects called neural tube defects, which affect the brain and spinal cord. That recommendation goes for any lady of childbearing age, even whether she's not trying to conceive, for many pregnancies aren't planned. Among American women only 40% accept a daily supplement containing folic acid. That part is even smaller - 30% - among women aged 18-24, who according to researches represent almost a third of all U.S. births. Among all age groups, young women are the least aware about the importance of folic acid consumption.

Folic acid can be found in many vitamin and mineral supplements. It has also been added to most enriched breads, flours, and other grain products for the last 10 years. Folate, a B-vitamin that's the natural form of folic acid, is also found in leafy green vegetables such as spinach and turnip greens, as well as in black-eyed peas and beef liver.

One thing I want to recommend you strongly, especially if you are planning to become a Mother – take care about your health. That is truly important both for you and for your child. And even if you are to think about that – take care of such things in advance.

Some people ask why I pay so much attention to the question of longevity. Am I afraid of it so much that I’m trying hard to avoid it at all? I’ll bet it’s on the contrary. I believe that ages can also give us a lot, for example wisdom and peace of mind. Yet there is another side of the coin – problems with health. And I know too well that it has influence not on the elderly people along but on everybody around them.

The recent study has shown that wives and other carers of men with prostate cancer may be at risk of anxiety, tiredness and other symptoms that influence on the quality of their lives. The results suggest that many family carers want help as well - for the sake of their own health and that of the cancer patient.

40 percent out of the 60 female carers in the study had significant anxiety symptoms, 12 percent were suffering from depression, and about one-third reported fatigue or sleep disturbances. According to the Journal of Clinical Oncology Another 15 percent complained of bodily pain. The women, who were mostly wives, aged 64 years old, on average, rates of each of these conditions surpassed the average for U.S. women of their age.

Scientists are sure that a high percentage of next of family carers experienced clinically meaningful levels of a number of symptoms. And those symptoms often took a strike on the women's daily lives. Those with higher levels of depression, anxiety and fatigue further had the lowest reckoning on a criterion degree of quality of life.

It was said that in estimated 44 million Americans care for an adult family member, and that number is expected to continue growing. Yet little has been known about how many of these carers suffer from their own psychological and physical symptoms. The current findings, though based on a small study, suggest that many family carers of cancer patients have serious health problems that demand attention.

So if you have a person who needs care in your family be very attentive to your own health. It is of much importance both for you and for your patient.