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	Research and Studies November, 2006 Allocating Funds to Regulatory Programs—Health Canada Health Canada EXCERPT: "When Canadians use products regulated by Health Canada—whether household products such as cribs, medical devices such as blood test kits, or prescription drugs—they expect that as long as they follow directions, the product will be safe to use. Programs that regulate these products need enough resources to ensure that Canadians are adequately protected from risks to their health and safety. Health Canada, as a regulator, needs to be able to demonstrate that it is fully meeting its regulatory responsibilities." November, 2006 Junk Science Puts Thacker Against Milloy, American Chemical Society, White House www.thinkandask.com EXCERPT: "Thacker was a science reporter for the Environmental Science and Technology journal, the media arm for the American Chemical Society, and it was after he was fired that he exposed evidence of an entire industry built upon spinning science propaganda through the media and Internet in order to benefit corporate interests. " July 06 , 2006 Mortality among Canadian Women with Cosmetic Breast Implants by Paul J. Villeneuve et al. American Journal of Epidemiology EXCERPT: "There is widespread concern about possible long-term health effects among women who have received breast implants for cosmetic purposes; few studies have reported on the mortality patterns of such women. The authors examined cause-specific mortality in a cohort of 24,558 women with breast implants and 15,893 women who underwent other plastic surgery procedures in Ontario and Quebec, Canada, between 1974 and 1989. Deaths through 1997 were identified through linkage to the national mortality database " June 06, 2006 The perverted irony of Health Canada's Special Access Programme Editorial letter by Timothy K.S. Christie and Julio S.G. Montaner EXCERPT: "The SAP is designed for patients with serious or life-threatening conditions and who require "emergency" and/or "compassionate" access to drugs not authorized for use in Canada, when conventional therapies have "failed, are unsuitable, or are unavailable." April 19, 2006 Breast Implant Study Results Reflect Funding Press Release, http://www.center4research.org EXCERPT: "As the FDA considers whether to approve silicone gel breast implants for the first time, three newly published peer-reviewed studies provide information that makes the decision more difficult for the FDA." March, 2006 Breast implant infection with Mycobacterium fortuitum group: report of case and review Abstract, by Vinh DC, Rendina A, Turner R, Embil JM., www.pubmed.gov EXCERPT: "This report summarizes the case of a young female who underwent augmentation mammoplasty who presented shortly thereafter with clinical evidence of an infected breast prosthesis. Despite a protracted course of empiric antibiotic therapy and multiple surgical interventions, she failed to improve.." 2005 Cancer incidence in a cohort of Ontario and Quebec women having bilateral breast augmentation by Jacques Brisson et al. Publication of the International Union Against Cancer EXCERPT: "The possibility that women, who receive breast implants for cosmetic purposes, have increased long-term risks of developing cancer continues to be debated. The objective of our study was to prospectively examine cancer incidence among women who received breast implants. A cohort was assembled of 24,558 women, 18 years of age and older, who underwent bilateral cosmetic breast augmentation, and 15,893 women who underwent other cosmetic procedures in Ontario or Quebec between 1974 and 1989." September 1, 2005 Cohesive Silicone Gel Breast Implants in Aesthetic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery Mitchell H. Brown, M.D., M.Ed., Robert Shenker, M.D., and Samuel A. Silver Excerpt: Cohesive silicone gel breast implants are composed of a textured silicone elastomer shell and are filled with cohesive silicone gel. Cohesive gel is formed by increasing the number of cross- links between gel molecules, which results in an implant that has better retention of shape and is less likely to fold or collapse, especially in the upper pole. April 4, 2005 Pathology of Lymph Nodes From Patients With Breast Implants: A Histologic and Spectroscopic Evaluation by William E. Katzin, MD, PhD, Jose´ A. Centeno, PhD,Lu-Jean Feng, MD, Maureen Kiley, MS, and Florabel G. Mullick, MD Excerpt: There are only a few published reports describing the pathology of regional lymph nodes from patients with silicone breast implants. Systematic analytical chemical verification of foreign ma- terial has not previously been reported. In this study, biopsies of regional lymph nodes from 96 patients with breast implants were studied ... January 31, 2005 Cohesive Silicone Gel Breast Implants in Aesthetic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery by Mitchell H. Brown, M.D. et al, American Society of Plastic Surgeons EXCERPT: "Cohesive silicone gel breast implants are composed of a textured silicone elastomer shell and are filled with cohesive silicone gel. Cohesive gel is formed by increasing the number of crosslinks between gel molecules, which results in an implant that has better retention of shape and is less likely to fold or collapse, especially in the upper pole." 2004 Mortality and Suicide Among Danish Women With Cosmetic Breast Implants by Poul Harboe Jacobsen, MD et al, Archives of Internal Medicine [abstract only] EXCERPT: "Epidemiologic studies indicate that women with cosmetic breast implants have a significantly increased risk of suicide. Our objectives were to examine mortality among Danish women who underwent cosmetic breast implant surgery and to evaluate the baseline prevalence of psychopathological disorders as measured by admission to a psychiatric hospital among women seeking cosmetic surgery. " March, 2004 What exactly was wrong with the Trilucent breast implants? A unifying hypothesis. by Monstrey S et al,. Department of Plastic Surgery, Gent University Hospital, Belgium [abstract only] EXCERPT: "Trilucent soybean oil-filled breast implants were initially announced as the ultimate prostheses for breast augmentation. However, after an increasing number of reports of local complications and hazardous metabolites attributable to lipid oxidation, first the United Kingdom Medical Devices Agency and later the Belgian National Ministry of Health urged all plastic surgeons to contact their patients and advise them to have the implants removed and, if desired, replaced with another type of prosthesis." 2003 Health Care Utilization Among Women Who Have Undergone Breast Implant Surgery by Aleina Tweed, BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health. EXCERPT: "The health consequences of breast implant surgery range from the well-established local complications to the very controversial systemic complications. Complications often lead to additional surgeries. Although most women receive implants through privately-funded health care, when they experience complications they enter the public health care system. This research study tests the hypothesis that receiving breast implants results in increased use of the public health system." click here for a short article summarizing the study. 2001 Cohesive Silicone Gel Breast Implants Dr. Steven Teitelbaum, www.drteitelbaum.com EXCERPT: "Cohesive breast implants were invented in the early 1990s, and have been used throughout the world for about 10 years. Only the United States has yet to approve these devices. Though the experience of these implants overseas will be taken into account, the FDA requires that a prospective large-scale study be done in the United States, adhering to their rigorous guidelines and scrutiny." McGhan Medical Corporation Style 410 Silicone-Filled Breast Implant Clinical Study EXCERPT: "The following information is the Informed Consent that patients received when they were entered into the McGhan Style 410 Cohesive Silicone Breast Implant Study for silicone breast implants. As you can see, women are much more informed regarding the risks and benefits of breast implants. The breast implant study information provided here is very thorough, and informative. " Dr. Steven Teitelbaum, www.drteitelbaum.com EXCERPT: "Cohesive breast implants were invented in the early 1990s, and have been used throughout the world for about 10 years. Only the United States has yet to approve these devices. Though the experience of these implants overseas will be taken into account, the FDA requires that a prospective large-scale study be done in the United States, adhering to their rigorous guidelines and scrutiny." May, 1997 Explantation of silicone breast implants by Thomas WO 3rd et al, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine/Medical Center, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA [abstract only] EXCERPT: "Silicone gel-filled breast implants have been employed clinically for decades for aesthetic augmentation or postmastectomy reconstruction. Most patients and surgeons attest to the efficacy and safety of these devices. However, more recently in the medical literature and popular media, silicone gel-filled breast implants have been claimed to incite an array of clinical sequelae such as capsular formation, granulomatous disease, arthritis, arthralgia, fibromyalgia, autoimmune collagen vascular disease, human adjuvant disease, siliconosis, silicone-related disease, and silicone implant-associated syndrome." Births and perinatal health of infants among women who have had silicone breast implantation in Finland, 1967-2000. by Hemminki E et al, [abstract only] EXCERPT: "Potential problems with breast implants have been widely discussed, but few data exist on the childbearing and offspring of women with implants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence and conditions of pregnancies of women who have had cosmetic breast implantation (exposed women), and the health of their newborns." A Case Report of Prefilled Polysaccharide Hydrogel Breast Implant Rupture: Clinical, MRI, and Pathologic Findings. by Lee CJ et al, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea [abstract only] EXCERPT: "A case of a ruptured prefilled polysaccharide hydrogel breast implant with its radiologic and pathologic findings is presented."