Laparoscopies are surgeries which can be used to both diagnose and treat endometriosis. In Canberra, endometriosis patients report facing long wait times to access them via the public system.

Kellie's invention led to starting a business to help other sufferers. From the moment she got her first period at the age of 12, she was in agony every month. To help with the cramps, she used ...

One in nine Australian women live with chronic pain caused by endometriosis, a disease in which tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside it. There is no cure and the average time ...

Although some women don’t have any symptoms, endometriosis is usually associated with pelvic pain, painful periods and difficulty getting pregnant. Endometriosis can also have a significant effect on ...

Pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) and endometriosis are closely connected, as both can cause chronic pelvic pain and affect the muscles and tissues in the pelvic region. Pelvic floor exercises may ...

Hope Medicine Inc. reported positive interim results for monoclonal antibody HMI-115 in a phase II endometriosis trial that saw the mean non-menstrual pelvic pain score reduced by 50%. “HMI-115 is a ...

There is currently no cure for the disease. [iStockphoto] In Kenya, the pain of Endometriosis often goes unnoticed, except by the women who live with it. For as long as she can remember ...

At 26, with no children, she knows it is a big step. But endometriosis and adenomyosis have left her housebound, in debilitating pain, and unable to see a future as a mum. Right now, she simply ...

Nicole Scott was told by a doctor the extreme pain she dreaded waking up to every day, which forced her to quit her job and caused her to collapse in the bathroom, “was all in her head”.

WOMEN with endometriosis show unique neurobiological changes in the brain, distinct from those in women with chronic pelvic pain (CPP) without endometriosis suggests new research. Endometriosis, a ...