Michael Jackson once kept Bubbles as a pet. Michael Jackson has been accused of beating up his chimp Bubbles. The late singer's pet was reportedly being beaten while in his car, and a leading chimpanzee expert insisted she tried to intervene when she'd heard about the way he was being treated.
Uterine fibroids are noncancerous growths of the uterus that often appear during childbearing years. Also called leiomyomas (lie-o-my-O-muhs) or myomas, uterine fibroids aren't associated with an increased risk of uterine cancer and almost never develop into cancer. Fibroids range in size from seedlings, undetectable by the human eye, to bulky masses that can distort and enlarge the uterus.
All uterine fibroids are similar in their makeup: All are made of abnormal uterine muscle cells growing in a tight bundle or mass. Uterine fibroids are sometimes classified by where they grow in the uterus: 1  Myometrial (intramural) fibroids are in the muscular wall of the uterus. 2  Submucosal fibroids grow just under the interior surface of the uterus, and may protrude into the uterus.