Word: implanting
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...hand, Medicare is seeking reimbursement by implant makers for tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars it has paid out to treat injuries the agency says were caused by the products. That effort took a big step forward two weeks ago when a federal appeals court in Atlanta, reversing a lower court, said the government?s suit against Bristol Myers Squibb, Baxter International, 3M, Union Carbide and Union Carbide Chemical and Plastics, could proceed...
...other hand, the Food and Drug Administration-like Medicare, a part of Health and Human Services-which restricted the use of silicone implants in 1992 because of health concerns, may be poised to reverse course. On October 14 and 15, an FDA advisory panel will meet to consider recommending that silicone implant manufacturer Inamed Corp., located in Santa Barbara, California, be allowed to market its product. This week, opponents of any change in the FDA's stance are beginning a print and broadcast ad campaign depicting a woman's breast with an implant as a ticking time bomb...
...problem, says the National Organization for Women and other groups protesting the FDA's step, is that the agency is considering just two years of safety data submitted by Inamed. Many of the injuries don't appear until at least 5 years post-implant. Studies and experience show that most of the devices eventually rupture, and can cause infection, interfere with mammogram readings and trigger a painful shrinkage of scar tissue around them...
...Baron. "The ultimate stimulus for our nomadic generation." Taking the notion of cell phone as appendage, architect David Rockwell called on the tattoo for inspiration and created a voice-activated Patch Phone, right. "It addresses how to connect the phone to a person's body, not in the cyborg-implant kind of way but similar to a nicotine patch," says Rockwell. It could also become fashionable, like a piece of jewelry. Just remember to turn...
...cochlear implant is a technological miracle that has restored hearing to thousands of children with severe to profound hearing loss. But according to a study conducted by the FDA and the CDC, children who receive implants are more than 30 times as likely to develop bacterial meningitis infections. These infections, even when treated with antibiotics, are lethal in some 10% of cases...