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Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care Ged Kearney

Hysterical, drama queen: How two-thirds of Australian women say they feel at the doctor

A woman who went to the GP complaining about abdominal pain during sex was told: “You’re 70 years old; of course sex is going to hurt.” Three days later, her appendix burst.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Fi Macrae has been appointed co-chair of the Pain Inquiry Sub-Committee.

‘We deserve to have our pain believed’: Why Victoria is holding an inquiry into women’s pain

Fi Macrae, who has endometriosis, was told by doctors it wasn’t possible she could be in so much pain and maybe mood stabilisers would fix her head.

  • Jewel Topsfield
Despite a lack of evidence, doctors are still recommending pregnancy as a treatment for endometriosis.

Why are doctors still telling women with endometriosis to become pregnant?

This advice is not only medically irresponsible, but also reinforces a set of sinister and sexist myths.

  • Gina Rushton
Endometriosis is a condition in which tissues similar to those in the uterine lining grow outside the uterus.

A new clue to endometriosis, a painful and poorly understood disease

New research has linked the condition to bacteria commonly found in the gastrointestinal tract.

  • Sabrina Malhi

My daughter’s illness led to a love of writing. Now she’s working on her first TV show

A mystery illness looked certain to put Joan Sauers’ daughter’s life on hold, but it led to a love of books – and, later, writing.

  • Joan Sauers
Royal Hospital for Women has successfully grown tissue from all types of endometriosis, which will help them diagnose and treat the condition in women. Kate Ford, photograpged at home in Oyster Bay, suffers from endometriosis.

Endometriosis affects one in nine women. World-first research at a Sydney hospital is giving them hope

A breakthrough paves the way for research into effective treatments, potentially limiting the need for invasive and painful surgeries.

  • Angus Thomson and Wendy Tuohy
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The federal government has announced $58 million over four years in funding for endometriosis treatment, research and education.

Record funding for endometriosis clinics, treatment and education

The federal government will commit $58 million to help treat the condition that affects one in nine women, including specialised treatment centres and education.

  • Rachel Clun
Dr Charlotte Reddington with her son, Nikolai, nine months, is working to crease an endometriosis ‘calculator’ to help predict who may get the disease.

Hair colour, eye colour, BMI: how to ‘calculate’ who may get endometriosis

“Endo” often goes undetected and can cause women hoping to conceive to lose many fertile years before they discover the cause. One researcher is trying to develop a ‘calculator’ for it.

  • Wendy Tuohy
I spent months trying to convince doctor after doctor that I was losing my body; they all thought I was losing my mind.

After years of doctors dismissing my pain, I began to wonder if it was real

For years, doctors seemed so convinced that Lucia's pain was imagined, she almost started to believe them. Then she learnt the truth.

  • Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Portrait of Lesley McQuire of Forestville.

How one in three women with endometrial cancer could avoid it

One in three potentially deadly endometrial cancers could be avoided and losing weight, drinking coffee, having babies and breastfeeding just might help. 

  • Kate Aubusson

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