By: Kimberly Noble, Advocate Training Program Participant

On October 28, 2004, CABWHP held an informative Town Hall Meeting entitled "Black Women, Lupus & Chronic Illness: Healing the Bodies & Souls of Black Women." The meeting took place in the Community Room at the Fox Hills Mall in Culver City and was co- sponsored by Senator Sheila Kuehl, Assemblymember Mervyn Dymally and the "Loop Us Together" Support Group.

Source: Inland Valley News

Cardiovascular disease is a major health concern for people with the autoimmune disease Lupus. The fall issue of the Lupus Foundation of America's national magazine, Lupus Now, discusses recent studies that confirm that women with Lupus have a greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease than women in the general population.

Source: Health Access California

Proposition 72, to ensure that employees get basic health coverage on the job and to expand such coverage to a million more workers, was defeated by a vote of 49% to 51%, a razor-thin margin of 160,000 votes out of over 9 million cast on the ballot measure. It was the closest margin of the sixteen initiatives on California's November 2004 ballot.

Source: Pace News

Researchers have long been puzzled about why African-American women are much more likely than whites to deliver premature and underweight babies.

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