Word: implantation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investigation began after an Associated Press story last December revealed Schur was working as a $300-an-hour consultant and expert witness for law firms defending silicone implant makers in lawsuits brought by women...
Liang, who served as associate editor of Arthritis and Rheumatism and was working on one of those studies, stepped forward after the AP story ran and acknowledged that he had also worked for law firms defending silicone implant makers...
Both Schur and Liang resigned from a Harvard study on the safety of breast implants that was sponsored by Dow Corning Corp., the largest defendant in the implant suits for which the two doctors had served as consultants...
Today doctors correct such defects by reconstructing missing organs with synthetic materials or transplanting tissue from other humans or animals, a procedure that carries the risk that the body will reject the implant. The idea behind tissue engineering is to trick the body into regenerating its missing parts. The mouse with the extra ear was created by scientists at the University of Massachusetts and M.I.T. to prove that the basic technology can work. In practice, humans would grow their own tissue, without the help of mice...
...many women are claiming damages from a landmark, $4.25 billion settlement over breast implants that each may receive just 5 percent of what she was promised. "There are just too many sick women," Ralph Knowles, the plaintiffs' attorney in the class-action suit, announced today. "I didn't think it was going to be anything like that. If I did, we would never have agreed to the $4.25 billion." Discussions are underway to convince Dow Corning, Bristol-Myers Squibb and other implant makers to add billions more to what is already the largest product-liability settlement in U.S. history...