Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease
Some notes: I will be in SF next week, and am co-hosting this event with the wonderful convoke.bio from 6:30pm-8:30pm on June 24th. Location TBD, but it will be in SF! You should come! Also, I very bravely chatted with Endpoints News a few days back about AI in the life-sciences. Finally, extremely grateful to Shilpa Pothapragada for both inspiring + reviewing this essay. Introduction Why is endometriosis interesting? The primary hypothesis of why it exists is not complete It is nearly equivalent to cancer There is no (real) cure to it There are few diseases on Earth as widespread and underfunded as it is Conclusion There are several diseases that are canonically recognized as ‘interesting’, even by laymen. Whether that is in their mechanism of action, their impact on the patient, or something else entirely. It’s hard to tell exactly what makes a medical condition interesting, it’s a you-know-it-when-you-see-it sort of thing. One such example is measles. Measles is an unremarkable dise
Primers Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease 5k words, 23 minutes reading time Abhishaike Mahajan Jun 13, 2025 564 49 109 Share Some notes: I will be in SF next week, and am co-hosting this event with the wonderful convoke.bio from 6:30pm-8:30pm on June 24th. Location TBD, but it will be in SF! You should come! Also, I very bravely chatted with Endpoints News a few days back about AI in the life-sciences . Finally, extremely grateful to Shilpa Pothapragada for both inspiring + reviewing this essay. Edit on June 20th 2025: Lots of interesting perspectives/corrections have been giv
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