New research is adding to scrutiny of a surgical tool called the laparoscopic power morcellator that the Food and Drug Administration has warned against using in a vast majority of cases because of ...

Morcellation has been a commonly used technique in minimally invasive gynecologic surgeries since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first power morcellation device in 1995. Last ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There's a new warning about a common surgery that tens of thousands of women have every year. As CBS 2's Dr. Max Gomez explains, new information shows the device could actually ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- There's growing concern a device used during hysterectomies can spread cancer. Early this year, the FDA discouraged the use of morcellators during gynecologic surgery. Now, a new ...

Decision Analysis Results Published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology In a new study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, researchers from The University of ...

Editor's Note: In October 2013, Amy Reed, MD, PhD, underwent a hysterectomy procedure involving morcellation at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston for what was presumed to be benign fibroids. All ...

Last November, the FDA ramped up its oversight of power morcellator devices, recommending against using the tools in most women undergoing a hysterectomy or uterine fibroid removal after finding that ...

The woman whose gynecologic surgery led her and her husband on a mission against a particular surgical instrument has died. Dr. Amy Reed had undiagnosed uterine cancer worsened by the use of a power ...

Medtronic ($MDT) is buying up the gynecology business from Smith & Nephew ($SNN) for about $350 million. The move is particularly interesting since the purchase is ...

In a new study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, researchers from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill compared the relative risks of laparoscopic hysterectomy ...

A device called a laparoscopic power morcellator, which many doctors have used to remove uterine fibroids, has sparked furious debate in the medical community. Why? WSJ’s Jason Bellini has ...

Update: Amy Reed died in May 2017 from uterine cancer. Thanks to her fight to protect other women from the same fate and get morcellators out of operating rooms, the surgery tool has become less ...