News from the endometriosis movement

The beginning of the modern endometriosis movement – the effort to “put endometriosis on the map” as one physician recently labeled it – began with the founding of the first organization in the world devoted to endometriosis – the Endometriosis Association, begun in January 1980. Drawing together the experience of patients with the expertise of the relatively few interested physicians and scientists, the Association immediately began the first systematic, epidemiologic studies of endometriosis, first in collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin, and now with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).