Endometriosis is a crisis – yet research, treatment and funding lag. Here, Scarlet Period and Rae founder, Jo Barry, shares ...

A jury in St. Louis has sided with Chesterfield, Mo.-based St. Luke’s Hospital and one of its anesthesiologists in a wrongful ...

I am one of roughly 182,000 Harris County women living with endometriosis. It takes most women four to 11 years to get a ...

Sadly, few of the approximately 30% of endometriosis sufferers who eventually need follow-up surgery after diagnosis (once ...

Individuals need to avoid sexual intercourse and tampons for at least 2 weeks after endometrial ablation, according to the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). However, the American ...

The surgery—an ablation (where doctors burn away abnormal tissue)—lasted a few hours, and recovery took three weeks. From it, they were able to diagnose me with endometriosis. The procedure ...

Lo and behold, surgery confirmed with a biopsy that there was endometriosis infiltrating my diaphragm, but everything else was "normal." During this surgery, the surgeon performed an ablation to ...

Even worse are patients who are offered surgical options which are now widely known to be ineffective and even harmful, such as ablation of endometriosis (where the tissue deposits are simply ...

There are two options for surgical treatments: Excision, which cuts out the endometriosis, or ablation, which burns it. Most of us who specialize in endometriosis care favor excision over ablation ...