WASHINGTON — A day after rejecting another company’s proposal, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended Wednesday that silicone breast implants made by Mentor Corp. be approved for ...

EDWARD MELMED is a surgeon in Dallas. THE FRIDAY before Thanksgiving, all U.S. plastic surgeons received a congratulatory e-mail from the principal manufacturer of breast implants. “Let’s toast this ...

FDA on Friday approved the use of silicone breast implants manufactured by Santa Barbara-based Mentor and Irvine-based Allergan for breast reconstruction and cosmetic breast augmentation, but the ...

(Reuters Health) - Women with silicone breast implants may have a higher risk of certain medical problems than women who don't get implants, but more research is needed to get a complete picture of ...

This summer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Plastic Surgery Department released the results of the largest-ever study of women with silicone breast implants. The goal of the study ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials say the latest data on silicone breast implants show they are relatively safe, despite frequent complications that lead about one in five women to have the ...

(Reuters Health) - Good evidence on the safety of silicone gel breast implants is still lacking almost 10 years after they were reintroduced to the U.S. market, researchers report in the Annals of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . All silicone breast implants eventually require removal. The longer a person has these implants, the greater ...

Ever since women began enlarging their breasts with implants, feminists have been upset. So, predictably, when a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel begins hearings today to consider approval ...

BOSTON, MA—Boston Plastic Surgery announces the addition of Motiva® silicone breast implants for breast augmentation to its list of breast implant options. As leaders in aesthetic medicine with a ...

Thirteen years after most silicone-gel breast implants were banned, federal health advisers on Tuesday narrowly rejected a manufacturer’s request to bring them back to the U.S. market, citing ...