Hysterectomy Alternative Goes Unmentioned to Many Women

Gynecologists Often Don't Cite Less-Invasive ProcedureTo Treat Fibroid Tumors.

"If gynecologists did UAE [uterine artery embolization], the procedure would be done 100,000 times a year," rather than 15,000, asserts Robert Vogelzang, chief of interventional radiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

(8-24-04 wsj; email me if you want the article. And no, I am not a doctor, although my wife thinks I think I am because I am a J.D., as in doctor of jurisprudence. But I do enjoy health related articles, and the wsj has its share. So much is going on in health care and stem-cell research that truly, tomorrow will be different.)