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On Wednesday this week Dr. Oz spoke to his audience about fibroid disease, and the current status of the morcellator. We’ve been discussing morcellation here for several months since the FDA published their warning on it’s use. Dr. Oz had a GYN surgeon who performs fibroid surgery using the morcellator,

The Wall Street Journal published an article yesterday discussing alternatives to surgery for women who need their fibroid disease treated. Fibroids have traditionally been treated with hysterectomy, or sometimes with laparoscopic myomectomy (fibroid removal). However, in the last several months, women have been unable to have laparoscopic surgery due to

As we discussed a few months ago in a prior post, the FDA has warned against the use of the morcellators in GYN surgery. Now, the largest supplier of the morcellator devices to surgeons has withdrawn them from hospitals citing the risk of spreading an undiagnosed cancer.   You can