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NEWS
Free web-based electronic pain diary now available
This new resource can help you and your doctor to evaluate, on an on-going basis, the effectiveness of treatment in order to determine if changes are needed.
ESHRE workshop announced to address the prevention of endometriosis
A two-day comprehensive review of preventive mechanisms including an interactive workshop to determine: What are we trying to prevent? Why are we trying to prevent this? Who are we targeting for prevention? How are we going to do it?
World Endometriosis Society publishes 3rd quarter e-Journal
Articles include "Dioxin exposure and endometriosis" and a guest editorial on "Endometrial-peritoneal interactions and endometriosis".
RESEARCH NEWS
Post-surgical ovarian failure after laparoscopic excision of bilateral endometriomas
Molecular genetic evidence that endometriosis is a precursor of ovarian cancer
Adenomyosis predicts impaired uterotubal transport in endometriosis patients with hyperperistalsis or dysperistalsis
Increased expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in the eutopic endometrial tissue of women with endometriosis
UPCOMING MEETINGS
1st Argentinean Congress on Endometriosis
21 - 22 September 2006
Buenos Aires, Argentina
VIIth PAX meeting on adhesions
28 - 30 September 2006
Leuven, Belgium
15th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE)
5 - 7 October 2006
Strasbourg, France
The Art and Science of Endometriosis: standardising the measurement of pain and diagnostic criteria
20 October 2006
New Orleans, USA
2nd Hellenic Endometriosis Congress
24 - 26 November 2006
Crete, Greece
For a complete congress schedule:
www.endometriosis.org/congress.html