Dow Corning and Breast Implants
1. The Dow Corning Chapter 11 information site. It contains Dow Corning Corporation chapter 11 information (about the launching of a court-ordered 60 day voting period during which time an Amended Joint Disclosure Statement, Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization and ballots to women with Dow Corning breast implants and other claimants in the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding. They would then have to vote for or against a plan to end Dow Corning's bankruptcy and resolve their claims). Also contains links to the Joint Plan documents, press releases, facts about Dow Corning, recent federal rulings, science and research and related web sites.
2 The John Hopkins Newsletter website. An article reflecting on the Dow Corning controversy.
3. The court TV online site. It contains a discussion of bogus science in the courtroom
4. Shelley Ludwig and Badey (Tort Lawyers) Site. It contains an article on defective silicone breast implants and also a links to the FDA site on breast implants, the Dow Corning lawsuit and the site run by breast implant survivors.
5. The Consumer Law Page has a detailed report on the Dow Corning case giving some new evidence against Dow chemical which was directly involved in the researching on the silica and silicone compounds used in the Dow Corning Breast implants.
6. The Green Left Weekly site. An article on the breast reconstructive surgeries can lead to serious illnesses and looks at the Dow Corning case to make his point.
7. The Breast Implants Law site containing links to the Tort Claims Committee site, the Dow Corning chapter 11 information site, the breast implant litigation claims administration site, the settlement facility – Dow Corning Trust site and links to important studies and resources on the topic.
8. The CNN site contains an interactive video of the FDA administrator ordering a halt to all silicone breast implant in the event of the reports that Dow Corning was not heeding the advice of its scientists to subject the implants to further tests.
9. The Junkscience website. This is an article in the Wall Street Journal about the tentative pact of 3.2 million dollars reached between the breast implant patients and Dow Corning.
10. The Canadian connection website set up in the honour of Helene Lacroix who succumbed to cancer. It provides a history and breast implants in general and Dow Corning's place in that history.
11. The Tech website. This is an article in the Washington Post on Dow Corning's internal memos, letters, and documents that revealed a history of worries that the company's silicone breast implants could rupture under certain circumstances and that the silicone could "bleed" through the outer shell of the prosthesis into the patient.
12. The CNN website. It contains a report on the verdict reached by the jury in the Dow Corning case. The report contains links to the Dow chemicals site as well as voice files of the Dow Chemical spokesman John Musser and Marsha Rabiteau, a Dow chemical lawyer.
13. The CNN health website. It contains a report on the Dow Corning implant settlement and the ramifications of the settlements. Also contains links to sites related to the controversy.