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More on the Toxic Implant Scandal
Remember that scandal that broke where thousands of woman potentially have a toxic time bomb in their bodies thanks to a French breast implant company that put industrial (not medical) grade silicone in their breast implants to save money? Well, there’s apparently more to the story as we’re now finding out, and it appears the [...]
French Breast Implant Warning
The arm of the government in France that deals with health and medical devices, sort of like our FDA here in the US, has issued a warning to French women who received a particular brand of silicone breast implant recently that they may want to get screenings. They even said the women may want to [...]
Silicone Implants Higher Risk for Rupture, Complications?
Apparently there is still lingering concern around the approved use of silicone breast implants, even though the FDA released them for approval a few short years ago, to be used not only in breast reconstruction patients, but also in women who were seeking breast augmentation cosmetic surgery. Silicone implants have long been idealized as the [...]
