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U.S. Senate to Address Chronic Pain in Landmark Hearing

HELP Committee Hearing to Examine Obstacles to Relief, Feature Testimony from Chronic Pain Research Alliance Leaders

WASHINGTON, DC – February 14, 2012 – The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) will today convene the first ever hearing on chronic pain, a growing public health epidemic that affects 116 million Americans at an annual cost of $635 billion in lost productivity and health care expenditures.  The hearing, Pain in America: Exploring Challenges to Relief, will examine solutions to disparities in pain research, treatment, education and...

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Women’s Health Advocates Praise Scheduling of Historic Senate Hearing

HELP Committee to Examine Ways to Tackle Epidemic of Chronic Pain, Builds on Landmark 2011 Institute of Medicine Study

WASHINGTON, DC – February 2, 2012 – The Chronic Pain Research Alliance (CPRA) today hailed the U.S. Senate’s announcement that on February 14, 2012, it will hold a hearing to examine the issue of chronic pain, a growing public health epidemic that affects 116 million Americans at an annual cost of $635 billion in lost productivity and health care expenditures. Much of this cost is born by taxpayers, accounting for 14 percent of all Medicare spending and $99 billion in...

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Consumers, Health Professionals and Advocates Join to Hail Release of Landmark Institute of Medicine Report on Advancing Pain Research, Care and Education

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Consumers, Health Professionals and Advocates Hail Release of Landmark Institute of Medicine Report on Relieving Pain in America

Report Provides Roadmap for Tackling Problem for 116 Million Americans

WASHINGTON, DC – June 29, 2011 – A broad group of consumers, health professionals and advocates today – including members of the Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women – joined to release a statement praising the Institute of Medicine’s Relieving Pain in America: Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Treatment and Research, tackling a major health problem that impacts 116 million Americans and costs over $500 billion a year.

 

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Women's Advocates Confront “Silent and Costly Epidemic” Of Chronic Pain

Updated Report Identifies Cost Saving Solutions

WASHINGTON, DC – June 24, 2011 – The Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women (“the Campaign”) today released its 2011 health care policy recommendations, which could save the government billions of dollars in wasted healthcare costs each year. This update to the Campaign’s groundbreaking 2010 report –...

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Public Testimony

Terrie Cowley, President, The TMJ Association, Ltd. on behalf of The Chronic Pain Research Alliance

Chronic fatigue syndrome, endometriosis, fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis, temporomandibular disorders and vulvodynia are just six comorbid conditions of a cluster of poorly understood and neglected pain conditions. These six affect as many as 50 million women and cost as much as 80 billion dollars annually in direct and indirect costs – much wasted because of the lack of diagnostics, safe and effective treatments and scientific understanding of these conditions.

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Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women Applauds the Historic Effort to Improve Pain Research, Care and Education

Press Release: The Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women

WASHINGTON D.C. (November 22, 2010) –  The organizational leaders of the Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women applaud the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Institute of Medicine (IOM) for beginning a historic review of the state of pain research, care and education in America.  In May the Campaign released a landmark study which found that up to 50 million American women suffer from one or more neglected chronic pain conditions which solely or disproportionately impact...

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Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women Launched: Endometriosis Association Part of Fight to End Discrimination Against Women in US Healthcare

Endometriosis Association's Newsletter, September 2010

The Endometriosis Association joined the three other member organizations of the Overlapping Conditions Alliance at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on May 19th to launch the Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women. Thirty-five representatives from more than thirty congressional offices attended the standing-room only briefing. A senior healthcare staffer from the office of Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), a leader of the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues, delivered Rep. Baldwin’s...

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The Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women Applauds Senate Committee Action to Help Millions of Women

Press Release: The Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women

WASHINGTON D.C. (August 3, 2010) – The Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women applauds the Senate Appropriations Committee for including language in its Fiscal Year 2011 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Bill that directs federal agencies to advance research and promote awareness of neglected chronic pain conditions that predominantly affect women. This action was taken in response to a groundbreaking report released by the Campaign in May, documenting that the...

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Campaign centers on women's pain

South Bend Tribune, June 8, 2010

The Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women kicked off May 19 with an event on Capitol Hill, a new report about women’s pain and the launch of a website and a video called “Through the Maze,” the Washington Post reports.

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