Articles, Reports and Other Resources

For Grace: Women In Pain Petition

For Grace: Women In Pain Bill of Rights

International Association for the Study of Pain
Global Year Against Pain in Women:
“Real Women, Real Pain” Campaign
October 2007

International Association for the Study of Pain
“Differences In Pain Between Women and Men”
October 2007

University of Michigan Health System
“Black Patients, Women Miss Out on Strongest Medications for Chronic Pain”
August 2010

WebMD.com
“Women’s Chronic Pain More Intense”
August 2010

Paintopics.org
“John Henryism” & Pain-Relief Deficits in Women”
August 2010

Newswise.com
“Men and Women Differ in Pain Drug Abuse Risks”
April 2010

Docstoc.com
“Women and Pain: An Overview”
February 2010

Reuters Health
“Women May Adapter Faster to Pain Than Men”
October 2009

BMC Medicine
“Sex differences in rheumatoid arthritis: More than meets the eye”
March 2009

HealthDay News
“Rheumatoid Arthritis Hits Women Harder”
January 2009

BBC
“Clue to Sexes Pain Difference”
December 2008

Reuters
“More U.S. women getting rheumatoid arthritis: study”
October 2008

Yahoo!/Healthy Day News
“Women benefit more than men from chronic pain treatments”
October 2008

The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
“Sex bias seen in control of cancer pain”
August 2008

American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)
“Pain Perception – It’s All in the Genes”
August 2008

“Women, Men and Ouch! the Painful Truth”
O, The Oprah Magazine, April 2008

“Gender Bias May Affect Care of People with Osteoarthritis”
University of Toronto, March 2008

“The best new pain cures, with a focus on women”
CNN.com, June 2007

“Not Feeling Each Other’s Pain” (.pdf)
Washington Post, December 2006

Ethical Perspectives on Pain and Suffering (.pdf)
Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN

A Review of Clinical Research of Pain Management in Women (.pdf)
Witney G. McKiernan, RN
University of California, San Francisco

Black Women Most Affected by Chronic Pain
Vanguard, February 2006

Extra Nerve Fibers May Heighten Female Pain Perception
MedPage Today, October 2005

Women and Men Perceive Pain Differently (.pdf)
Society for Women’s Health Research, August 2005

Women feel pain more than men, research shows
Medical News Today, July 2005

Same Pain, Different Sex Means Different Treatment
ABC Good Morning America, May 2005

Pain May Be in the Brain, But It’s Still Real
ABC News, May 2005

Painkillers Designed Especially For You?
ABC News, May 2005

The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain (.pdf)
By Diane E. Hoffmann and Anita J. Tarzian

Hurting More, Helped Less?
New York Times, June 23, 2002

National Institute of Health
Gender and Pain: A Focus on How Pain Affects Men and Women Differently
April 1998

With Chronic Pain, Discrimination Hurts
By Cynthia Toussaint
Los Angeles Times Op/Ed, January 2004

The Undertreatment of Women In Pain
By Marni Jackson

What A Pain!
Discovery Health

Pain Issues: Gender and Chronic Pain
Interstitial Cystitis Association

Pain and Cancer Fact Sheet (.pdf)
Intercultural Cancer Council

Pain: What Women Should Know (.pdf)
National Women’s Health Resource Center

Preparing for Surgery: Redefining Your Recovery
National Women’s Health Resource Center

Black women with chronic pain suffer more physical and psychological distress
University of Michigan Health System, October 2005