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Emma Barnett: We can't ignore this disease that leaves one in 10 women like me in agony

Endometriosis UK, compared to just under a million with dementia. But the real number is thought to be considerably higher by charities and experts, as so many women

Women can wait years for an endometriosis diagnosis. New tech could change that

Endometriosis affects one in 10 women in the UK and is often a painful condition in which cells similar to those lining the womb grow elsewhere in the body. It can take an average

Streeting relaunches women’s health strategy to tackle ‘medical misogyny’

many women were dismissed for “serious symptoms” that affected every part of their lives. “The renewed women’s health strategy will build significantly on the work the NHS has been doing to ensure women

'Adenomyosis may be invisible, its impact is not'

many women, especially those early on in their careers, to feel fear around sharing their struggles. Experts agree more education and research is needed. Dr Rebecca Mallick, a consultant gynaecologist at University Hospitals Sussex, said

I'm on six different NHS waiting lists - it's taking over my life

endometriosis has no cure - it is a condition that is not life-threatening but is aggressively life-altering." The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has produced a dashboard analysing waiting times across the four

Ukraine is a global surrogacy hub - but that could be about to end

many Ukrainians have endured during the war. Another advertising campaign in 2021, by Ukraine's largest surrogacy clinic, BioTexCom Centre for Human Reproduction, promotes a "Black Friday sale" on surrogate babies. Challenged