A shocking explanation for endometriosis might result in remedy : Short Wave : NPR

Since the age of 9 or ten, Katie Burns has had debilitating ache from endometriosis, a situation the place tissue resembling the uterine lining grows exterior the uterus. For years, Katie was in the dead of night about what was the reason for her ache. Even after a prognosis at age 20 it was arduous to seek out aid, and even solutions about her situation. Her seek for higher care is a part of what led her to a profession learning the illness, which impacts tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide. And in 2012, she found one thing new about its origins. Today, we discuss to Katie and science reporter Meredith Wadman about that discovery, which factors to a shocking perpetrator of endometriosis — the immune system.

Read Meredith’s full piece in Science Magazine HERE. 

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This episode was produced by Berly McCoy, edited by Rebecca Ramirez and Amina Khan and reality checked by Tyler Jones. The audio engineer was Robert Rodriguez.