Why Women? Painful Conditions Disproportionately Affecting Women

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Why Women? Painful Conditions Disproportionately Affecting Women

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TOPICS for July 2004:

In the Spotlight

* Featuring: Women, Men Experience Pain Differently

* Conditions That Disproportionately Affect Women

First Person Advocate

* Woman With Fibromyalgia Wins First Place In National Magazine Essay

Contest

Chatter

* Researchers Find Possible Cause For Prevalence Of Chronic Pain In

Women

* Study Finds Young Black Women Have Greater Chance Of Having Fast-

Growing And Aggressive Breast Tumors Than White Women

Key to Action

* Society for Women's Health Research

Bucks Box

* Interstitial Cystitis Network: Low Income Assistance

* Lupus Foundation Issues Request for Applications

* Interstitial Cystitis Association Offers Research Assistance

* National Vulvodynia Association Invites Research Proposals

Caregiver's Bookbag

* Vulvodynia Self Help Guide

* First Person Plural Sponsored Breast Cancer Dialogue

Legislation Watch

* California Pain Awareness Month Resolution

Countdown to September — Pain Awareness Month

* Partner and Create a Pain Awareness Day Program for the Community