While fans cheered on student-athletes at the CIAA Tournament, a quieter but urgent conversation unfolded off the court. Women’s health leaders and advocates gathered to spotlight fibroids and endometriosis, conditions that disproportionately affect Black women and are often underdiagnosed or dismissed.
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What Black women need to know about fibroids
By Mylika ScatliffeAFRO Women’s Health Writer If you visit the Atlanta Fibroid Center website, you will see pages of testimonials from mostly Black women who no longer live a miserable existence of heavy bleeding, unbearable cramps and planning their lives around their periods. Dr. John Lipman, the center’s founder and medical director, has made it […]