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 ...

Suggested Citation: "10 Neurological Disease and Its Association with Silicone Breast Implants." Institute of Medicine. 1999. Safety of Silicone Breast Implants. Washington, DC: The National Academies ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Pamela Dowd drove her 20-year-old motor home 2,500 miles from Boise, Idaho, to tell a government panel how her silicone breast implants led to health problems that had sapped her ...

Allergan's silicone breast implants gained premarket approval in 2002 after a four-year study. After a 14-year hiatus, silicone breast implants have been welcomed back onto the U.S. market with equal ...

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 ...

The Food and Drug Administration has proposed better warnings for women considering breast implants spelling out the risk of serious complications. The new rules are for both surgeons and ...

Modern implants are less likely to rupture. Q. I have breast implants that are silicone. I am concerned about ruptures and other problems with them. What would you recommend me to do as far as making ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who have breast reconstruction after cancer surgery tend to be happier with the cosmetic results of silicone implants than with saline-filled ones, a study published ...

For more than a decade, silicone breast implants have been banned in the United States, pulled from the market amid claims that they made women ill. By the mid-1990s, the devices had become a symbol ...

(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 ...

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Review of the Reports of the Independent Review Group and the National Science Panel." Institute of Medicine. 1999. Safety of Silicone Breast Implants. Washington, DC: ...