Living with endometriosis can be an isolating experience. Through these arts-based workshops, women with endometriosis will have the opportunity to:
- Connection with other women who have endometriosis
- Share experiences of living with endometriosis
- Engage in arts-based experiences for relaxation and fun
- Develop new coping strategies
When & Where
Sunday 31st May 2009 (1:30p.m. – 3:30p.m.)
Wednesday 24th June 2009 (7:30p.m. – 9:30p.m.)
Hawthorn Community House, 32 Henry St, HAWTHORN VIC
COST: $35 (All materials included)
For more information, click here.
The World Endometriosis Society has published its e-Journal for March with the following highlights:
- Ill weeds grow apace and live long
- Anti-apoptotic characteristics of endometriotic cells may provoke their abnormal survival
- Announcement of venue for WCE2014
- General news update and highlights from national societies
Click here to download a copy in PDF.
March is quite a significant month for Endometriosis advocates. In Europe, Australasia and South America, March 2 to 8 is Endometriosis Awareness Week. The awareness campaign is celebrated in the United States for the entire month of March.
Make a difference by getting involved in any of the events in your locality! For a list of events happening all over the world, visit Endometriosis.org.
The World Endometriosis Society’s e-Journal for December 2008/January 2009 is now available for your reading pleasure. In this issue, the following topics are featured:
- Towards non-invasive diagnostics
- Advances in the diagnostics of endometriosis
- Endometriosis: back to the roots – a new hypothesis by Professor Brosens
- General news update and highlights from national societies
Click here to download a free copy (PDF).
WES e-Journal (Dec/Jan)
I guess it’s not enough that endometriosis wreaks havoc on your reproductive system, as it also poses a risk if and when you do get pregnant. See new research details below.
New research published this week reveals that the common gynaecological disease, endometriosis, doubles the risk of premature birth. Endometriosis affects more than two million women in the UK, while 60,000 babies are admitted to NHS premature baby units a year in England.
The comparative study, led by Professor David Healy of Monash University, Australia was funded by medical research charity, the Bupa Foundation. Professor Healy studied 6,750 births, including those from In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) programmes, to find that regardless of IVF treatment, women with endometriosis are twice as likely to have a premature birth. Critically, the research can now be used to identify pregnant women with endometriosis, who are at increased risk of premature labour and premature birth, through the use of ultrasound in the early stages of pregnancy.
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There is a new study out that links endometriosis to abnormalities resulting from defects in the early embryo. It seems that this condition is more likely to be genetic in nature.
Dr. Serdar Bulun of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago links the disease to molecular abnormalities including a progesterone receptor that is inappropriately turned off and the presence of a enzyme — aromatase — that triggers estrogen production.
“This may be a disease that women are born with,” Bulun says in a statement. “Perhaps when a baby girl is born, it has already been determined that she is predisposed to have endometriosis. Maybe research can now be directed toward the fetal origins of the disease and raise the awareness of how the disease develops.”
The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, identifies a protein — SF1 — as key to producing an enzyme called aromatase that was only found only in endometrium tissue located outside the uterine lining.
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Empower yourself with knowledge. There is a new book in the market to help you understand the condition that Endometriosis is.
100 Questions & Answers About Endometriosis
100 Questions & Answers About Endometriosis
Dr. David B. Redwine, MD, FACOG, Medical Director, Endometriosis Institute of Oregon, St. Charles Medical Center, Bend, Oregon
It is estimated that between 10 and 20 percent of American women of childbearing age have endometriosis. About 5.5 million women in the U.S. and Canada are diagnosed with the disease each year.
Whether you’re a newly diagnosed patient, or are a friend or relative of someone suffering from Endometriosis, this book offers help. The only text available to provide both the doctor’s and patient’s views, 100 Questions & Answers About Endometriosis gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, and provides sources of support from both the doctor’s and patient’s viewpoints. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of endometriosis.
Click here to purchase this book.
Researchers may have found a remedy in the Chinese herb Prunella vulgaris (PV) for women with endometriosis and certain types of cancer.
The Chinese herb Prunella vulgaris (PV) may prove an effective treatment for women with endometriosis and certain types of cancer because of its anti-estrogen properties, according to research published in the November 5 issue of the journal, Biology of Reproduction.
Although the female hormone, estrogen is crucial to reproduction, it can have some negative side effects, fueling the abnormal cell growth that occurs in diseases such as endometriosis and cancer. To treat these diseases, doctors have turned to tamoxifen and other anti-estrogen medications, but these drugs can have significant side effects.
In their search for an alternative to anti-estrogen medications, researchers in Greenville, South Carolina focused their attention on several possible herbal remedies. “We had 20 herbs in the lab that included Prunella vulgaris,” says Bruce Lessey, MD, PhD, vice chair of Research, and director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Greenville Hospital System. PV is found in Europe and Asia and is often used to treat painful periods. “There had been one study previously suggesting that a related herb, Prunella stica, had anti-estrogen properties. So we screened the herbs, and this one really jumped out.”
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The October issue of the World Endometriosis e-Journal is already out. It highlights the following topics:
- Candida or candidate genes?
- Do you know your -omics?
- Genomic and proteomic approaches in the study of endometriosis
- General news update and highlights from national societies
A PDF version of the journal may be downloaded here.
