$2.6 million funding for endometriosis
$2.6 million was awarded to the International Endogene Consortium which is studying the genetic background of Endometriosis.
BPW has campaigned since 2003 for Endometriosis to receive funding for specialist treatment centres. As business and professional women, BPW is aware of the £ 3 billion pounds lost in work days each year in our country. Besides this huge cost to businesses, which exceeds $30 billion across Europe, there is a human cost to the 15 million European women who suffer from this condition. In lay man’s terms Endometriosis is the condition where bits of womb lining occur in other parts of the body. When they break down and bleed they have nowhere to go and this causes swelling, pain, scar tissue and sometimes infertility.
Endometriosis UK announces that $2.6 million was awarded to fund research at the 2008 World Congress on Endometriosis.
This funding is from the UK’s Wellcome Trust and Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council. Dr Grant Montgomery from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research said the upcoming research was possible thanks to women with endometriosis who have contributed blood samples and their time. He said “We are extremely grateful for their efforts and hope to be able to provide exciting results from these studies in the near future.”
Other findings at the tenth conference were that those women with easily burned skin, moles and freckles are more likely to have endometriosis.
There is a suggestion that green tea can help control endometriosis. Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong said that antioxidant compounds in green tea restrict the formation of new blood vessels which assist in spreading endometriosis.
Girls who are underweight at 16 have a higher risk of endometriosis according to a study by Christina Nagle from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
To find out more go to www.wce2008.com or www.endometriosis.org
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