Did you know September is National Gynecological Cancer Awareness month? In recent months, a common gynecological procedure has come under scrutiny from the FDA. This minimally invasive procedure uses ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An FDA warning about the use of laparoscopic power morcellators to treat uterine fibroids has polarized the ...

In late 2013, media coverage of power morcellators, a tool used during laparoscopic hysterectomies, drew attention to the controversy around the device. Patient advocates say that use of morcellators ...

A retrospective review reveals that 0.6% of women who underwent laparoscopic hysterectomy with power morcellation were diagnosed with uterine sarcoma. Three of these women were diagnosed at the time ...

The controversy surrounding the cancer risks associated with power morcellators (http://www.injurybeacon.com/power-morcellator/) continues to grow, as Bernstein ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a tougher warning against using laparoscopic power morcellators in hysterectomy and myomectomy to remove uterine fibroid tumors, saying surgeons ...

NEW YORK, N.C., Aug. 23 (UPI) --Although they were not used in most hysterectomies, the use of electric power morcellators in the procedures has declined significantly since the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Laparoscopic power morcellators are electronically powered tools that use a bladed feature to shred uterine fibroids and other tissue so that they may be easily removed through small incision in the ...

FOLFOXIRI Plus Panitumumab As First-Line Treatment of RAS Wild-Type Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: The Randomized, Open-Label, Phase II VOLFI Study (AIO KRK0109) By linking statewide hospital discharge ...

The US Food and Drug Administration Monday warned against a gynecologic device that has spread cancer in women who thought they had harmless fibroids. In the last year, two-dozen women have reported ...

Power morcellators are electric surgical devices used to cut tissue that have been used in recent years as an alternative to traditional, abdominal surgical hysterectomies, laparotomies and ...