the juicy business of endometriosis

by time news

2023-11-27 08:00:10

DECRYPTION – The proposals are at best far-fetched, at worst dangerous.

Intense pain, diagnostic wandering, limited therapeutic arsenal, psychological suffering, stigma… So many characteristics which make endometriosis a favorable environment for the development of numerous abuses. Typing “endometriosis” into a search engine is enough to convince oneself that patients now represent a lucrative market…

“Endometriosis has come out of the shadows, but the media coverage is double-edged: we are no longer considered crazy, but, in return, we have attracted all the profiteers”summarizes Marie-Rose Galès, patient expert and author of the book Endometriosis, what other countries have to teach us (Editions Josette Lyon). There are of course a myriad of websites, which offer a thousand and one products supposed to reduce pain (patches, infusions, hot water bottles, etc.) with varying degrees of effectiveness. But above all “therapists”, including doctors, who are not always scrupulous, flourish.

Journalist Camille Grange describes many…

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