Everything you ever wanted to know about endometriosis surgery

Operative procedures for endometriosis
by Ros Wood
Hormonal treatments have no long-term effect on endometriosis, so you may have to undergo surgery in order to treat your disease.
Surgery for endometriosis can be very complex, in particular if you also have fibroids and/or adenomyosis, and extensive disease may mean that surgery will involve repair to fix the rectum [...]

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New Approaches To Endometriosis Treatment: Mouse Experiments Point The Way

Possible new directions for the treatment of endometriosis, a painful condition associated with infertility that affects up to 15% of women of reproductive age, will be outlined in the presentation of two experimental studies at the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (Tuesday July 3). Both concern targeting angiogenesis [...]

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Endometriosis increases risk of certain cancers

Doctors in Sweden have shown for the first time that although endometriosis is associated with an increased risk of various cancers, this risk does not depend on the number of times women with the condition have given birth.
Dr Anna-Sofia Melin, told the 23rd annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology: “Several [...]

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The best new pain cures, with a focus on women

Zooming in on female pain
We know that men don’t suffer menstrual pain, but that’s not the only fun they’re missing. “Research is uncovering very dramatic differences in how the genders experience pain,” says Mark Allen Young, a professor at New York College of Podiatric Medicine and author of “Women and Pain: Why It Hurts [...]

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World Endometriosis Society publishes e-Journal with articles of diagnostic delay, and adhesions in endometriosis

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News round up
Can the delays in diagnosing endometriosis be reduced?
Endometriosis and adhesions
Highlights from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Summit on Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility
Stakeholders in endometriosis come together in the European Parliament
10 Programme highlights for the upcoming WCE 2008
Research highlights

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New Study: Pine Bark Significantly Reduces Endometriosis

There’s promising hope for women who suffer from endometriosis, one of the most common causes of infertility and pelvic pain. A new study to be published in an upcoming edition of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine reveals that Pycnogenol(R) (pic-noj-en-all), an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, significantly reduces [...]

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