Implants: Safe? Women pursuing claims over breast implants to see further delays

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Implants: Safe? Women pursuing claims over breast implants to see

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JoAnn Guest

Jul 01, 2006 17:35 PDT

 

Midland News article on ongoing Dow Bankruptcy Saga

http://www.humanticsfoundation.com/daily.htm

 

NOTES FROM ILENA: After over 10 years in bankruptcy protection, Dow

has

paid less than a quarter of the claims, and these average under

$10,000

each. In most cases, this does not even cover the cost of

explantation

.... borne for the most part out of the pockets of the women.

 

EXCERPTS:

 

Claims administrator David Austern said the facility has paid around

57,000 claims, amounting to $565.5 million. more here ....

 

 

Vicki Lawrence of Florida is among those frustrated awaiting her

settlement check from Dow Corning. Lawrence had two sets of Dow

Corning

implants; the first was removed in the mid-1980s and the second in

1992.

She received $5,000 for implant removal a little more than a year

ago

and she's fighting for a $20,000 settlement for rupture.

 

" What the women do is, you hurry up and you wait, " she said. " It

makes you crazy. " more here ....

 

 

Our greatest wish is that as we begin this new year, that our

prayers

are heard and sanity prevails ... on God's Green Earth & in the

Breast

Implant Awareness Cause ... more here

 

.... that the 'powers that be' at the FDA refuse to yield to silicone

makers and the plastic surgeons and their lobbyists and their front

groups ... all in abundance.

We pray that the FDA will not lie to the public that silicone gel

breast

implants have been proven to be 'safe' based on flawed, short,

controversial, and inconclusive studies.

This is true by no definition of what safety means.

The problems with serious and often life threatening infections are

common. Just this week, a study admitting the high complication and

re-surgery rates in women post mastectomy was published.

Click here to read the San Francisco Chronicle article entitled,

Implants, Mastectomies Linked to Problems.

Even this study, in part funded by the silicone industry, gave a far

rosier picture than reality. Please read the statement of Dr. Diana

Zuckerman, Ph.D. President, National Research Center for Women &

Families by clicking here for a powerful response to this complex

issue.

 

The mighty " Junk Science " (aka " Quackery " ) propaganda machine with

vast

pooled funds from the Silicone, Vaccination, Tobacco, and other

Industries have new " Spokes Doctors " making false claims of the

dangers

of several highly politicized and funded products. The Boston Globe

Magazine's recent " The Secret Truth " by Darshak Sanghavi subtlely

disinformed readers that the " notion " of breast implants and

autoimmune

diseases had been " discarded. " Far from it. Check back for our

response

to Dr. Sanghavi.

 

Women pursuing claims over breast implants to see further delays

 

February 13, 2006:

 

MyDNA: Implants: Safe?

 

EXCERPTS are also published here.

 

Breast Cancer Survivors Making Surgery Decisions With Limited

Information, Says New Report

Former Director of FDA Office on Women's Health Speaks at Release of

'Decisions in the Dark',

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- EXCERPT: Breast cancer survivors

who

undergo reconstructive surgery using silicone implants have access

to

very little research-based information about the likely risks,

according

to a report released today by the National Research Center (NRC) for

Women & Families. Dr. Susan Wood, former director of the U.S. Food

and

Drug Administration's (FDA) Office of Women, was a speaker at a

National

Press Club Newsmakers' event where the report was released.

 

MUST READ " Decisions in the Dark " ... click here to open pdf

file.

 

http://www.humanticsfoundation.com/daily.htm

 

http://www.center4research.org/pdf/ImplantReport2006.pdf

 

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