Congress highlights
Highlights from meetings and congresses on endometriosis
ASRM2011: Improving fertility through nutritional medicine (pre-conceptional care) Special Interest Group on Nutrition held is first Post-Graduate Course on pre-conceptional care through nutrition: important for both women and men when trying to conceive!
ASRM2011: Is endometriosis the cause or a by-stander when it comes to pain? Is endometriosis responsible for all pain and, if so, how is this managed long term in different types of patient groups?
WCE2011: Highlights from the 11th World Congress on Endometriosis At WCE2011 1300 delegates celebrated eleven outstanding pioneers in the field of endometriosis and shared clinical and basic research.
ESHRE2011: Avoidable loss of fertility Bill Ledger today encouraged women to have children at a younger age since there are no guarantees or evidence that life style changes or medically assisted conception can aid pregnancy at a later age.
ESHRE2011: A new method to detect subtle endometriosis? Bruce Lessey today presented a simple technique of using methylene blue staining to detect subtle or invisible endometriotic lesions in women with chronic pelvic pain.
EFA2011: Let’s talk about sex and endometriosis Highlignhts from the 2nd annual meeting of the Endometriosis Foundation of America (EFA) featuring endometriosis experts from around the world; David Redwine, Caroline Gargett, Harry Reich, Asgi Fazleabas, Victor Gomel, a.o.
EFA2011: Susan Sarandon speaks up about endometriosis Susan Sarandon spoke up about endometriosis at EFA’s Blossom Ball. It is not a woman’s lot in life to suffer pain from endometriosis, or to miss part of your life because of it. She encouraged everyone to spread the word!
EFA2011: Endometriosis pioneers honoured at 3rd EFA Blossom Ball for Endometriosis Endometrial stem cell researcher Caroline Gargett and laparoscopic surgery pioneer David Redwine were honoured at the 3rd Endometriosis Blossom Ball for their contribution to the field of endometriosis.
GNRH2011: 50 years of the human clinical use of gonadotrophins Bruno Lunenfeld talks about 50 years of gonadotrophins in infertility and how work in implantation could influence progress in endometriosis.
ASRM2010: EndoSIG puts endometriosis on the map The Endometriosis Special Interest Group of the ASRM ensured that endometriosis got optimal exposure at the 66th Annual Meeting of the ASRM in Denver in October 2010 (ASRM2010)
