http://content.nejm.org/The latest New England Journal of Medicine has research likely to interest millions of women with uterine fibroids.

Scottish researchers compared results of treatment with a procedure known as uterine-artery embolization and surgery, including hysterectomy. The study involved 157 women, including 106 who underwent embolization.

The investigators said the embolization was a more cost-effective treatment than surgery. But they cautioned that each approach involves tradeoffs.

Those are the non-cancerous tumors that affect about 40 percent of women during their child-bearing years. They complicate fertility and