Dr. Wanda Nicholson appeared on UNC-TV’s Black Issues Forum to discuss what she and other researchers are doing to uncover why millions of women of color are plagued by uterine fibroids.
Uterine fibroids plague millions of women of color yet are often misunderstood to be other health problems entirely. Luckily, professionals like Dr. Phyllis Leppert of Duke University, Dr. Wanda K. Nicholson of UNC’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Dr. Darlene Taylor of NC Central University are working to educate women about fibroids.