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</div><div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Breast_implant_controversy">Breast implant controversy</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dow_Corning&action=edit§ion=3" title="Edit section: Breast implant controversy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action" title="Class action" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">class-action</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsuit" title="Lawsuit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lawsuits</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Corning#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> claimed that Dow Corning's silicone <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_implant" title="Breast implant" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">breast implants</a> caused systemic health problems. The claims first centered around <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_cancer" title="Breast cancer" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">breast cancer</a>, and then migrated to a range of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmunity" title="Autoimmunity" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">autoimmune diseases</a>, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_lupus_erythematosus" title="Systemic lupus erythematosus" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">lupus</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatoid_arthritis" title="Rheumatoid arthritis" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">rheumatoid arthritis</a> and various neurological problems. This led to numerous lawsuits beginning in 1984 and culminating in a 1998 multibillion dollar <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action" title="Class action" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">class action</a> settlement. As a result, Dow Corning was in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy" title="Bankruptcy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">bankruptcy</a>protection for nine years, ending in June 2004.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A number of large, independent reviews of the scientific literature, including the U.S. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Medicine" title="Institute of Medicine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Institute of Medicine</a>, have subsequently found that silicone breast implants do not appear to cause breast cancers or any identifiable systemic disease.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Corning#cite_note-nyt-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-frontline_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Corning#cite_note-frontline-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Corning#cite_note--5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></p></div><div>
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</div><div><div id="mod-article-header" class="mod-articleheader" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; line-height: 26px; font-weight: normal;">3 Companies in Landmark Accord On Lawsuits Over Breast Implants</h1></div><div id="mod-article-byline" style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 15px; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By GINA KOLATA<br style="font-size: 10px;" />Published: March 24, 1994</div><div id="mod-a-body-first-para" style="margin-bottom: 10px; width: 640px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the largest settlement ever negotiated in a class-action lawsuit, officials of three companies gave final approval yesterday to an agreement to pay $3.7 billion over 30 years to women claiming they were injured by silicone breast implants.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the highly complex settlement, the companies, the Dow Corning Corporation, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and the Baxter Healthcare Corporation, will pay women specific amounts for injuries.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"We finally did it," said Gary E. Anderson, Dow Corning's executive vice president. Judge's Approval Needed</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The agreement is still subject to approval by the companies' boards of directors and by Judge Sam C. Pointer of Federal District Court in Birmingham, Ala. Even if he approves it, the settlement can crumble if too few women sign up. But if it goes through it will clear the courts of many of the 12,000 cases involving more than 25,000 women who had implants and say they were injured....</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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