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Getting my breasts done changed my life ... I want my implants replaced

Posted on Mar 10, 2012 - 12:00 PM

Sarita Clery is one of the 1,500 Irish women who have been fitted with suspect breast implants. When the women spoke out, they were met with hostility, and even a suggestion that they were vain and deserved to die of cancer. Alison O’Riordan reports ‘I was quite plain growing up. I wanted to wear nice clothes but they didn’t cling to the right bits,” says 31-year-old Sarita Clery from Lucan, Dublin, explaining her reasons to have breast implants ...

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Other Questions Cosmetic Surgery

Posted on Mar 08, 2012 - 12:00 PM

Vol. 758 No. 3 of 165 176. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan Minister for Health   if he has met a group (details supplied); if he is taking any measures to address the health concerns of the 1,500 women in Ireland who have been affected by PIP breast implants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13296/12] 198 ...

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Report on link between narcolepsy and vaccine

Posted on Mar 08, 2012 - 12:00 PM

Dept of Health has received an expert report on a possible link between the sleeping disorder narcolepsy and the human swine flu vaccine. Article 1 of 1 Sound represents over 230 children they believe have been affected The Department of Health has received an expert report on a possible link between the sleeping disorder narcolepsy and the human swine flu vaccine Pandemrix ...

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Top Johnson Johnson executives knew of DePuy Hip Failure a year before recall

Posted on Mar 07, 2012 - 12:00 PM

A year before recalling the DePuy hip implant, an executive at DePuy’s parent company Johnson & Johnson, reported in an internal email that the F.D.A. had refused to approve the device after reviewing the company studies that showed it had failed prematurely in “significant” cases, requiring repeat surgeries for patients ...

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Hip makers sold faulty units a year after finding flaws

Posted on Mar 02, 2012 - 12:00 PM

By Caroline O’Doherty Patients given faulty hip replacements may have received a boost to their case for compensation following the revelation that the manufacturers continued to sell the defective devices a year after discovering their flaws. In Ireland, 3,282 people were fitted with the faulty hip implants made by the DePuy company which is part of the international Johnson and Johnson conglomerate ...

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Taxpayer may pick up tab for Shine case

Posted on Mar 02, 2012 - 12:00 PM

TAXPAYERS face the prospect of paying the bill for damages for alleged victims of struck-off hospital consultant Michael Shine. A row has broken out between the religious order that ran Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth—where Mr Shine worked—and its insurance company. The company claims it was not notified about some complaints made about Mr Shine—in breach of the terms of the insurance agreement ...

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