Referrals for 89 women with faulty French breast implantsNews from This is Nottingham: EIGHTY-NINE women who had controversial private breast implants have been referred to the NHS in Nottingham in the past two months. Figures released by the Department of Health yesterday show those referrals, between January 6 and February 26, led to 58 outpatient [...]
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Dalli calls for more vigilance over French breast implant scareNews from Times of Malta: European Health and Consumer Affairs Commissioner John Dalli wrote to the EU’s 27 health ministers suggesting increased vigilance to avoid incidents like the recent scare on French-made silicone breast implants. Although a preliminary study conducted by EU experts was inconclusive and [...]
French Breast-Implant Disaster: How Do Europeans See Cosmetic Surgery?News from The Atlantic: The controversy reveals that we wrongly assume, with dangerous implications for public health, that women who get breast implants must be rich. A Venezuelan woman sits next to the two PIP breast implants that she had removed. The yellow implant at left, made [...]
French Breast Implant Disaster: How We Misunderstand Cosmetic SurgeryNews from The Atlantic: Wild-eyed alarmism makes Iranian leaders and U.S. voters more likely to make bad choices. A Venezuelan woman sits next to the two PIP breast implants that she had removed. The yellow implant at left, made by Poly Implant Prothese, had broken. / AP [...]
Cosmetic surgery unaffected by French breast implant scare; Women actually …News from New York Daily News: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images Around 300,000 women in 65 countries have received implants made by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), a now-defunct manufacturer in southern France that is at the centre of the storm, although some figures are much higher. Cosmetic [...]
Cosmetic surgery unaffected by French implant scare: studyNews from AFP: Cosmetic surgery unaffected by French implant scare: study (AFP) – 2 hours ago PARIS — Cosmetic surgery is booming worldwide and unaffected by the health scare prompted by a French breast implant company that used substandard silicone, a global body of plastic surgeons said Friday. [...]
Cosmetic surgery unaffected by French implant scare: studyNews from AFP: Cosmetic surgery unaffected by French implant scare: study (AFP) – 2 hours ago PARIS — Cosmetic surgery is booming worldwide and unaffected by the health scare prompted by a French breast implant company that used substandard silicone, a global body of plastic surgeons said Friday. [...]
Official warns against French breast implantsNews from Gulf News: Poly Implant Prothese made by defunct company in France is known to leak cancer-causing silicon, Health Ministry says Dubai: The Ministry of Health yesterday advised doctors and hospitals against using silicon breast implants made by a French company which reportedly leak and cause cancer. A senior [...]
French women ‘must have faulty breast implants removed’News from BBC News: 20 December 2011 Last updated at 07:06 ET Cases in which the defective implants have leaked have sparked concern The French authorities are to ask 30,000 women who received potentially defective silicone breast implants to have them removed, reports say. There are concerns that [...]
French plastic surgeon compares practices in his country to those in USNews from ModernMedicine: Redirect Notice The previous page is sending you to http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Modern%20Medicine%20Now/French-plastic-surgeon-compares-practices-in-his-c/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/750219?contextCategoryId=40174 . If you do not want to visit that page, you can … Read the full article . Related News: Board-Certified Cosmetic Plastic Surgeon, Who is Relocating to Austin …News [...]