Women of reproductive age bleed once a month during their menstrual period. This happens when your uterus sheds its lining, and the blood and tissue pass through the vagina and out of your body.

Dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) involves changes to menstruation patterns, such as changes in regularity, duration, or flow. DUB can happen for many different reasons. Dysfunctional uterine ...

Treating Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: What's Best? Menometrorrhagia-excessive and prolonged uterine bleeding at irregular or frequent intervals [1] —is most often caused by uterine fibroids, and symptom ...

It can be hard to tell whether uterine bleeding is excessive. Generally, healthcare professionals consider things like bleeding that soaks through more than one tampon or pad every hour or lasts for ...

Uterine fibroids might sound like a concerning condition, but these growths that form from the muscle tissue of the uterus are almost always noncancerous. For many people, they cause mild symptoms. In ...

A new review article illuminates why physicians should keep coagulation disorders in mind when evaluating patients with heavy abnormal uterine bleeding. Physicians treating patients with heavy ...

Endometrial cancer, the most common uterine cancer, often begins with subtle symptoms like abnormal bleeding, which can be mistaken for normal changes. Other key warning signs include unusual ...

Symptoms of uterine cancer after menopause mainly involve atypical vaginal bleeding or non-bloody vaginal discharge. A person may also experience pelvic pain, unintentional weight loss, and the ...

Abnormal uterine (womb) bleeding is a common problem in women. Abnormal uterine bleeding can occur as either a change in your normal menstrual period or as bleeding in between your normal menses. You ...

Almost every woman will experience abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) at least once in her lifetime. AUB accounts for approximately one third of gynecologic outpatient visits 1 and about 10% of visits to ...