As Endometriosis Awareness Month continues, here are a few worthy and/or interesting media stories that mention endometriosis so far this March:
March 8, 2016, Medical Xpress, Survey launched to learn more about Endometriosis
You’d think the medical community would know a lot about a serious disease that impacts the lives of about 176 million women worldwide. Not so:
Researchers from the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Translational Medicine, in collaboration with the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, are launching a national survey to further understanding of a common gynaecological condition called endometriosis.
March 9, 2016, Christine Hauser, The New York Times, Padma Lakshmi Opens Up About Rushdie in Memoir
Endometriosis advocate, cookbook author and reality television star Padma Lakshmi released her memoir Love, Loss and What We Ate on March 8th. The news story makes clear the broad impact endometriosis can have on a woman’s life:
Ms. Lakshmi suffered from endometriosis, a painful uterine disorder in which tissue grows outside the organ. The struggles of dealing with it — she had extensive surgery — upended their sex life and contributed to the demise of their marriage, she writes. Ms. Lakshmi said Mr. Rushdie at one point called her “a bad investment” and was insensitive to her medical condition even as she tried to recuperate.
March 10, 2016, Sola Ogundipe, Vanguard, Nordica, Diamond Bank walk in Lagos for endometriosis awareness
Events to mark Endometriosis Awareness Month are happening all over the world. In attendance at the Endo Walk in Lagos, Nigeria, was international model and endometriosis advocate Millen Magese.
IT was a star-studded list of Nigerians that braved the early-morning downpour on Saturday March 5, 2016, to participate in the annual Endo Walk, aimed at breaking the silence around Endometrioisis – a silent but growing health condition that predisposes women of reproductive age to ill health, infertility and severe periodic pains.
March 11, WTOP, Endometriosis and period pain: Redefining normal for teenage women
An article sponsored by The Center for Innovative GYN Care based in Washington, DC, makes the point that far too often teenagers and young women are told that the menstrual pain they feel is normal:
The perception is that this is a burden a woman must bear as part of her biological make-up, and the less said about it the better, unless you are selling a pain reliever/diuretic combo. Those who manage to make it through years without experiencing pain are deemed “lucky.” But, the mere acceptance of pain as a side effect of the onset of female fertility has served, some would say for thousands of years, to ignore a sign of an actual disease: Endometriosis. A disease that increases in intensity over time.
Coming up next Saturday, March 19, is the 2016 Worldwide EndoMarch taking place in various cities throughout the world. Click here for information.
