Linda griffith dinta is a professor of biological and mechanical engineering. In her email signature, she says don't refer to indemetriosis or fibroids as benign diseases. "They are not benign. They are common and morbid," Dinta writes. She's now effecting real change in the field.
This common chronic condition — where tissue similar to what grows inside the uterus grows elsewhere in the body — is barely understood. So why is a condition so prevalent and painful still so unknown? It has a lot to do with who gets to ask research questions.
Correction, August 18: An earlier version of this episode implied that the tissue involved in endometriosis is the same as the endometrium, which lines the uterus. It is similar tissue, but not identical.
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