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'But you don’t look sick:' The struggles of living with an invisible illness

Co-Director of EndoRISE, Elise Courtois, PHD at the Jackson Laboratory in Farmington, where she is studying the debilitating, under-researched condition called endometriosis. August 8, 2024.
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Co-Director of EndoRISE, Elise Courtois, PHD at the Jackson Laboratory in Farmington, where she is studying the debilitating, under-researched condition called endometriosis. August 8, 2024.

A ϳԹ lab is embarking on a groundbreaking initiative to study endometriosis, a painful condition that impacts people with a uterus.

Endometriosis is just one of the many invisible illnesses that impact an estimated 10% of the American population, according to , an independent Health and Disability news source.

This hour, we talk about why invisible illnesses are difficult to diagnose and how scientists are trying to change that.

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  • Michayla Savitt, State Government Reporter, ϳԹ
  • , Author of “One Tick Stopped the Clock”
  • , Assistant Professor and licensed clinical social worker, University of ϳԹ

Note: This episode originally aired on September 23, 2024.

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Chloe Wynne is a producer for <i>The Wheelhouse </i>and<i> Where We Live</i>. She previously worked as a producer and reporter for the investigative podcast series, <i>Admissible: Shreds of Evidence</i>, which was co-produced by VPM and Story Mechanics and distributed by iHeartRadio. She began her journalism career at <i>inewsource</i>, an investigative newsroom in San Diego, Calif., where she covered housing, education and crime. She earned her master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School in 2021, where she focused on audio storytelling.<br/>
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