Fw: Natural Health Mag ... My published Letter to the Editor

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From: " ilena rose " <ilena@...>

Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 7:33 PM

Subject: Natural Health Mag ... My published Letter to the Editor

>

> Natural Health Magazine

> October/November 2001

> page 10

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> Update on Breast Implants

>

> In your July, 2001 issue e Fugh-Berman, M.D. discussed ruptured

> breast implants and wrote that " Doctors don't accept silicone toxicity as

a

> diagnosis. " (Is There a Fibromyalgia-Silicone Connection? Ask the

Experts).

>

> But that may change as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently

> published a study in the Journal of Rheumatology on ruptures from breast

> implants. Lori Brown, Ph.D., a senior researcher with the FDA's Center for

> Medical Devices and Radiological Health, wrote, " We found an association

> between fibromyalgia reports and women who had silicone gel found outside

> the breast capsule. " This doesn't verify a cause and effect relationship,

> but suggests that there might be one.

>

> Ilena Rosenthal

> Director, Humantics Foundation

> http://www.humanticsfoundation.com/

> (An advocacy group for women harmed by breast implants)

> via email

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> MY ORIGINAL LETTER:

> To the Editor of Natural Health Magazine ...

>

> In your excellent July, 2001 issue (p. 47) Dr. Fugh-Berman responded to

an

> inquiry on this topic that " doctors don't accept silicone toxicity as a

> diagnosis. "

>

> Almost simultaneously, the FDA was publishing a study on rupture which

> indicated that two out of 3 women, often with no symptoms, had at least

one

> rupture at 17 years.

>

> Senior researcher with the FDA's Center for Medical Devices and

> Radiological Health, Dr. Lori Brown wrote, " We found an association

between

> fibromyalgia reports and women who had silicone gel found outside the

> breast capsule. This doesn't mean there is a cause and effect relationship

> between the two, but that there might be. "

>

> Her paper, published in the Journal of Rheumatology, concludes by

> saying that if the findings are confirmed in later studies, a screening of

> all women with silicone implants should be considered to determine if

> their devices had ruptured.

>

> Ilena Rosenthal

> Director, Humantics Foundation

> Breast Implants: Recovery & Discovery

> 858/270-0680

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