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Breast Implant Studies Find No Health Risks - No link between silicone and disease, reports say David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle, 10/25/95 Two new studies of women with silicone breast implants show no evidence that they risk developing rheumatoid arthritis or the painful tissue disease called fibromyalgia, researchers reported yesterday. The studies, released in San Francisco at the American... Push to Expand Coverage Of Breast Cancer Surgery Mark Simon, San Francisco Chronicle, 01/31/97 Breast cancer and its treatment is beginning to build its own momentum as an issue of national focus. Representative Anna Eshoo, D- Atherton, held a news conference in Palo Alto yesterday to announce that 12 national and local cancer and medical... Breast Implant Maker Files for Bankruptcy - Thousands of lawsuits are at stake Jay Mathews, San Francisco Chronicle, 05/16/95 Dow Corning Corp., stuck in an enormous legal swamp over allegedly harmful silicone breast implants, forced cancellation of hundreds of trials and threatened a $4.2 billion settlement yesterday by filing for federal bankruptcy court protection. The... Supreme Court Backs Award For Implants Chronicle Wire Services, San Francisco Chronicle, 01/10/95 The Supreme Court refused to wipe out a $7.34 million award won by a Sonoma County woman who said she contracted a painful disease after her silicone breast implants ruptured. The court yesterday turned away arguments by Dow Corning Corp., which... "I THOUGHT THIS WAS ALL BEHIND ME' Marsha Ginsburg, Examiner, 04/18/99 Andrea Fox will do many things to stay healthy and keep breast cancer from recurring. But at 32, she will not have her breasts removed. One of the biggest paradoxes for doctors and experts is that some healthy women are choosing to remove their breasts to... What it can set you back to look like a goddess Elizabeth Fernandez and Lance Williams, Examiner, 09/13/98 HAIR Transplant: $3,000; Scalp reduction: $1,500 - $2,000 Flap surgery: $3,000 - $4,500 Laser hair removal: $500-$3,000 (depending on site) FACE Forehead lift: $2,500 Rhinoplasty (nose job): $3,300 Blepharoplasty (upper and lower eyelids): $3,000... EUROPE - France Lifts Ban On Breast Implants San Francisco Chronicle, 03/01/95 French health officials ended a three-year moratorium yesterday on silicone breast implants but will require careful monitoring of women who receive them. The ministry said research ``shows that the risk of contracting auto-immune diseases and cancer after... Sebastopol woman's suit started wave of litigation Larry D. Hatfield, Examiner, 05/15/95 Dow Corning's descent from being the nation's leading breast implant maker to federal bankruptcy protection started with a lawsuit by a sick and angry Sonoma County woman who eventually collected $4.9 million from the troubled corporation. Mariann Hopkins... BREAST IMPLANT SETTLEMENT Dow Corning Corp., Examiner, 06/28/99 Facts about proposed settlement between Dow Corning Corp. and lawyers representing thousands of women who say silicone breast implants hurt them: * Women whose conditions qualify them for disease payments could receive $12,000 to $300,000 for the most... Feds urged to create information resource for medical implants ERIC ROSENBERG, Examiner, 01/13/00 BETHESDA, Md. - The federal government should develop an information clearinghouse on medical implants so that patients can be better informed about the life span of the devices and possible complications that might arise, a panel of 14 independent...
