Word: scar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspect gel has been linked to cancer in laboratory rats, according to a 1988 report. One type of implant, which has a polyurethane coating designed to prevent scar-tissue formation, poses a special danger, and was withdrawn from the market last April. The marshmallow-like foam coating has been shown to break down into a chemical called TDA (2-toluene diamine), which is known to cause cancer in animals...
...skin cells. A 1989 study by Carolyn C. Compton, associate professor of pathology at the Medical School and a pathologist at MGH, found that the skin of patients treated with cultured skin grafts up to five years ago had developed lower layer skin, or dermis, rather than developing scar tissue...
...time. Harvey Kurtzman was the guy who did Mad comics, created Mad. And I remember being kind of 10 years old and seeing this paperback reprint of some of the early Mad comics--it included something called Micky Rodent. And I know that this created a deep scar and I spent the rest of my adult life working it out.... That there was something sinister beneath the surface was made clear in this Micky Rodent Strip, in which the Disney Police are dragging off Horace Horsecollar in panel one because he's not wearing the regulation white gloves...
...impassioned on both sides. Implant manufacturers brought out reams of safety-test data, claiming their products were essentially harmless. Some users spoke of gaining self-esteem by reshaping their bodies, and of a psychological boost in battles against breast cancer. But others told stories of pain from internal scar tissue, diseases they attributed to the implants, and deformities suffered when the prostheses ruptured or shifted. In the end, though, the panel voted unanimously to recommend that implants stay on the market, and FDA Commissioner David Kessler is expected to concur...
Finally it has come together for the Germans. After years of waiting and praying, Germany is one nation again, a people united. The Berlin Wall, once the ugliest scar on a wounded country, has been knocked down, its pieces carted off to a huge depot for resale as art or to be crushed for use as roadway ballast. The border fences marking the Iron Curtain that for so long divided Europe have been dismantled...