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After two days of emotionally charged testimony, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 9 to 6 to recommend that silicone breast implants be allowed back on the market. Their sale was halted in 1992 because of concerns that leaking implants could cause serious illness. Later studies found no evidence that implants caused the myriad chronic diseases that had been attributed to them. But because of lingering concerns, the panel put conditions on their approval. The manufacturer must continue to follow patients for 10 years, it must give women coming in for implants information about scarring, ruptures and other...
...same day that the University indicated that it is considering building a bubble over Harvard Stadium (see story, page A-1), historians and Harvard boosters celebrated the horseshoe amphitheater’s 100th birthday at a panel discussion Friday...
...Democratic Party is in a rut, according to a panel of distinguished journalists who spoke at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Friday...
...Kerry M. Healey ’82 and a panel of activists decried state budget cuts for rape crisis centers and stressed the importance of sexual assault awareness at a Harvard Law School event last night...
Despite the women’s protests, last week an advisory panel to the FDA voted to recommend that silicone breast implants be allowed back on the market after a prohibition that has lasted for the past eleven years. In 1992, the United States banned breast implants filled with silicone gel after hundreds of women complained that ruptured implants had leaked silicone into their bodies and caused long-term chronic immune system disorders. Saline implants, though less “natural” in appearance and feel, were used alternatively after...