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Endometriosis is an age-old condition and yet until recently, the complex disorder remained largely overlooked due to medical and social perceptions of women’s pain.
An operation to remove the uterus should be called a uterectomy – like the removal of the tonsils is a tonsillectomy, or an appendix removal is an appendectomy.
Women in Canada who are affected by pelvic organ prolapse should have access to two treatment options: both hysterectomy and uterine-preserving surgeries.
The Essure device was implanted into women’s fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy. It left some women with chronic pelvic pain that took a hysterectomy to resolve.
Women in Alberta with a high school diploma or less have nearly double the rate of hysterectomies than those with a university degree, raising questions about social disparities in medical care.
The recent allegations against an ICE facility in the U.S. are part of a long history of forced sterilizations of Indigenous, Latina and Black women.
A scholar explains why there is no one answer. Some pain is devastating, and sometimes such pain responds well to opioids. On the other hand, there is evidence that some physicians overprescribe.
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Medical Student & Epidemiologist, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
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PhD Candidate, Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
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Gynecologist & Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Médecin épidémiologiste, doctorant au Centre de recherche en Épidémiologie et Santé des Populations (CESP), équipe Épidémiologie Gynécologique (EpiGyn), Inserm. Travaux de recherche portant sur l’endométriose, Inserm; Université Paris-Saclay
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Biological Psychology, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor, sociology department, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Law, Bond University