This year's House and Senate testimony by Mona Schlossberg and Sandi Bois results in the issuance by the NIH of the five-year research plan and the funding of IC research projects at Tufts New England Medical Center, the University of Pennsylvania and New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center.
The ICA Pregnancy and Surgery Surveys results are completed and released.
The US Congress designates November 16th, 1989, as National IC Awareness Day.
Judith Heller testifies before the NKUDAB. Debra Slade addresses the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.