Endometriosis Awareness Month – 54% Don’t Know About Endometriosis

Half of the UK isn’t aware of the life-changing condition that’s as a common in women and those assigned female at birth as diabetes and asthma. Endometriosis affects 1.5 million women and those assigned female at birth in the UK, similar to the number affected by diabetes or asthma  54% of people do not know […]

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Endometriosis – a sticky problem

The Hippocratic Post - endometriosis

Endometriosis is a common condition when pieces of the lining of the womb start growing elsewhere and causing problems. Usually, this occurs on the ovaries, fallopian tubes and surrounding tissue. 25-50 per cent of infertile women may have endometriosis. The lining tissue responds to hormones in the body, and can cause bleeding. Blood is an […]

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Fertility Breakthroughs

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Fertility treatments that are available today would have seemed like science fiction a few years ago. ‘Think how far we have come since IVF was developed 30 years ago. Back then, people said doctors were playing God. Today, 60,000 babies are born using IVF techniques every year in the UK,’ says Susan Seenam, chief executive […]

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