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
iVillage.com
“Women and Pain: 10 Ways It Really Is Different”
April 2013
MedicalNewsToday.com
“Some Women Feel More Pain
April 2013
The Lund Report
“Medical and Psychological Risks and Consequences of Long-Term Opioid Therapy in Women”
August 2012
The Journal of Pain
“Women report feeling pain more intensely than men, says study of electronic records”
January 2012
Scientific American
“Women Feel Pain More Intensely Than Men Do”
January 2012
Medical News Today
“Dissimilar Interaction Of Opioid Receptors May Explain Why Men And Women Experience Pain Differently”
August 2011
Health Day
“1 in 5 Cancer Survivors Suffers Chronic Pain, Study Finds”
January 2011
Los Angeles Times
“Flawed pain science blurs question of he felt, she felt”
October 2010
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
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