“It’s all in your head.” “Just relax.” “Have a glass of wine before sex.” These are direct quotes, from uneducated and insensitive
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Lupron and Reproductive Injury
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Recent attention in a dual Reveal and Kaiser Health News Report (‘Kaiser Report’) to the risks of Lupron’s use in children with
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Four years ago, when the heavy period bleeding which I’d had since adolescence suddenly became much worse, I never would have predicted
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Birth Control Problems? The Eyes Have It
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I have a lot of conversations about birth control. It’s what I do. I’m kind of a one trick pony that way.
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DES, Nazis, and American Industrialists
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DES is a synthetic estrogen-like compound developed in 1938 by English chemist Charles Dodd. German chemists under the employ of the Nazis
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For as long as I have been studying endometriosis, I have suspected that endometriosis represented a protective cascade, one that has either
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Gynecologic surgeries, namely hysterectomy (uterus removal), oophorectomy (ovary removal) and C-sections, are the top overused procedures in the U.S. Only 10%, at
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Hysterectomy Trauma
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It was April 2007, I remember seeing my gynecologist for the second time that year and receiving the same painful test, revealing
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