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Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association; Yank D. Coble, Jr, MD; E. Harvey Estes, Jr, MD; C. Alvin Head, MD; Mitchell S. Karlan, MD; William R. Kennedy, MD; Patricia Joy Numann, MD; William C. Scott, MD; W. Douglas Skelton, MD; Richard M. Steinhilber, MD; Jack P. Strong, MD; Katherine A. Schneider; Henry N. Wagner, Jr, MD; Jerod M. Loeb, PhD; Robert C. Rinaldi, PhD; Donald R. Bennett, MD, PhD

JAMA. 1993;270(21):2602-2606.

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AT THE 1991 Annual Meeting, Resolution 259 was referred by the Board of Trustees to the Council on Scientific Affairs (CSA) for a report on the evaluation of the safety of breast implants. The recommendations of Report M prepared by the CSA were adopted as amended by the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates at the Interim Meeting in 1991 in lieu of Resolution 259 (A-91) and Resolution 521 (I-91) and the remainder of the Report was filed (Policy 525.984, AMA Policy Compendium). Report M described the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory history of breast implant devices through August 1991. Because of continuing developments, including a voluntary moratorium on their use by the FDA in November 1991, the Council elected to provide a follow-up report (Report C) on this subject. Report C covers the continuing FDA regulatory history through October 1992 and

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Author Affiliations
(Vice-Chair), Jacksonville, Fla; (Chairman), Durham, NC; (Resident Representative), Tucker, Ga; Beverly Hills, Calif; Minneapolis, Minn; Syracuse, NY; Tucson, Ariz; Macon, Ga; Cleveland, Ohio; New Orleans, La; (Medical Student Representative), New York, NY; Baltimore, Md

From the Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association, Chicago, III.

Footnotes
Dr Bennett was an employee of Dow Corning Corp from 1965 until his resignation in 1974. Since 1991, he has received a Dow pension of $315 per month.

The recommendations of Report C of the Council on Scientific Affairs were adopted at the 1992 House of Delegates Interim Meeting and the report was filed.

This report is not intended to be construed or to serve as a standard of medical care. Standards of medical care are determined on the basis of all the facts and circumstances involved in an individual case and are subject to change as scientific knowledge and technology advance and patterns of practice evolve. This report reflects the scientific literature as of December 1992.

Reprint requests to the Group on Science, Technology, and Public Health, Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610 (Dr Loeb).

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