Harvard Nurses' Study

Implant Veterans of Toxic Exposure

Harvard Nurses' Study

Please go to http://www.channing.harvard.edu/nhs/ to read the questions for what has become known as the Harvard Nurses' Study.

Read the chronology of when the questions were asked. According to the chronology, the question about silicone was asked in 1990. However, open the pdf for 1990 and find the question. One would easily conclude that the question is not on the 1990 questionnaire.

However, this is the critical study that purports there is no connection between breast implants and connective tissue disease.

The FDA never saw these questions.

Send an FOIA to FDA and ask for the questions and criteria for the 1990 Harvard Nurses' Study. It does not exist.

Ask for a copy of the study. FDA can only get it from the Internet.

Don't hold your breath waiting on these answers. It took me 7 months to get a call from FDA with this information. But, don't take my word for it. Ask FDA yourself.

Harvard Nurses' Questionnaire

Since the early 1990's, women who were implanted with silicone gel breast implants have been burdened with the results of what is commonly called the Harvard Nurses' Study. Two checks from Dow Corning, totaling $1.2 million paid for the study. The results were reported to the FDA. The FDA had no knowledge of these checks and did not see a copy of the study questions prior to receiving the results. Seeing the questions that lead to a "conclusion" of a "medical study" is not a requirement of the FDA.

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