"It's completely changed my life": endometriosis patients hail new subsidised treatment

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Endometriosis is a disease causing tissue similar to uterus lining to grow in other parts of the body, often resulting in symptoms like period pain, heavy menstrual bleeding and reduced fertility. Source: Moment RF / Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images

Endometriosis affects one in every seven women. Australian women will now have access to cheaper medicine to treat the condition, after the federal government listed a treatment on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).



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