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Heart Disease & Endo – Here’s How to Fight It

by bizhall March 31, 2016 0 Comments

By: Mary Lou Ballweg The news of higher risk of heart disease in women with endometriosis, especially younger women, (Circulation, March 29, 2016) may be shocking and cause some fear. But if you’ve followed our work all these years, you already know that endo is a systemic (whole-body) inflammatory disease. And inflammation, as is clear in […]

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Diagnosis and treatment: surgery vs. no surgery?

by bizhall January 25, 2016 0 Comments

EFA’s Sixth Annual Medical Conference: Ending Endometriosis Starts at the Beginning Diagnosis and treatment: surgery vs. no surgery? Juan Salgado, MD Thank you very much, good afternoon. Thank you to the…committee for their invitation and yes, I do look like Tamer Seckin. We do not know if we are brothers or not but we have […]

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My Struggle with Endometriosis

by bizhall September 28, 2015 0 Comments

Patient Spotlight By Lindsay This is the story about my struggle with endometriosis and the people who saved my life. I was only 12 years old and surely not sexually active. I was an athletic, and a high-energy teenager. I ran track, played varsity volleyball and rollerbladed to and from school everyday. My OBGYN attributed […]

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Greater Surgical Precision Scores a Triple Win

by bizhall August 28, 2015 0 Comments

Patient Spotlight By Rachel Kessler At age 19, Sacramento-based Jessica was diagnosed with endometriosis, a condition which caused her intense pain – with devastating news from her doctor that she may never be able to get pregnant. Endometriosis is a condition where uterine tissue is found outside the uterus, and causes lesions in the ovaries, fallopian tubes, […]