Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scottish psychiatrist has charged Upjohn of Kalamazoo, Mich., with falsifying scientific evidence regarding the safety of the sleeping pill Halcion (annual worldwide sales: $240 million). The accusation has prompted a federal investigation. Dow Corning Wright of Arlington, Tenn., stands accused of failing to report that its silicone-gel breast implants were associated with severe side effects -- including the development of autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. That product and similar implants made by other manufacturers have been placed in 1 million to 2 million American women. If fraud has occurred, the cost cannot be compared with chicanery in other...
...most aggressive of them advertise in newspapers, on billboards and even on TV with come-ons such as "Has your breast-implant surgery gone wrong? We can help." Doctors find this alarming. "They're scaring the hell out of the women who have had these things put in," complains Dr. Mark Gorney, medical director of the Doctors' Co., a large malpractice insurer. "Any woman with an implant who has a twinge in her shoulder says, 'Oh, my God, I'm going to die.' " Many attorneys also worry about the appearance of a feeding frenzy...
...silicone breast-implant scandal may, however, change that relationship. Anderson's own trust in the system was shattered on Dec. 12, when he sat down and read scores of Dow Corning documents, including 17 internal memos dating as far back as the mid-1970s, about silicone-gel breast implants. The information surfaced during a liability suit in Michigan. When he finished, Anderson wrote and hand-delivered both the documents and an urgent letter to the FDA demanding that all such implants be promptly removed from the marketplace. "This appeal is not made lightly," Anderson wrote. He noted that Dow Corning...
...Silicon breast implants have been widely praised for restoring a normal figure to cancer patients who have undergone mastectomies. Indeed, in some cases implants have been necessary and beneficial...
...anthology of new journalism, Joan Didion). It was a period of burgeoning feminism, but some feminists closed ranks against a woman who admitted, as Ephron did, that she still had fantasies of being raped. Yet everything valid in The Beauty Myth was said in Ephron's famous essays on breast size and vaginal perfumes, and male oppression is nowhere better described than in her article on women in the magazine world. She was portraying betrayed women -- Pat Loud on TV, Barbara ("Bootsie") Mandel in the Maryland Governor's mansion -- long before she became...