What Doctors Don't Tell YouTwo years ago, I found a lump in my breast. After I'd had a scan, they found that my left silicone breast implant had ruptured after being in place for 12 years. ...
Last month a judge in Birmingham, Alabama, approved a worldwide compensation deal of $4.25 billion for more than 90,500 women worldwide with silicone breast implants. The settlement, which is to c ...
Women who have extracapsular silicone (silicone gel that has migrated outside of the fibrous scar capsule that surrounds a breast implant) are more likely to report a diagnosis of connective tissu ...
Breast implants are more dangerous than previously suspected, new evidence suggests. Researchers have found the incidence of implant failure is extremely high and increases as the implants age. ...
Rupture of silicone breast implants is more common than previously suspected, because the implants have a very short life span, according to new research. ...
The latest information about breast implants are that 5 to 6 per cent will rupture, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. ...
Ignoring mounting evidence of the dangers of silicon gel breast implants, the American Medical Association has endorsed a report recommending their use on an "informed consent" basis. ...
The Food and Drug Administration has recommended that silicone breast implants remain on the American market even though there is no data proving their safety while it considers new tests submitte ...
Despite the America's Food and Drug Administration's call for a halt to silicon breast implants, Britain has lifted the ban on breast implant operations. ...
