http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. 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. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-cosmetic-surgery-unaffected-french-implant.html Other Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:01 EST news246860930 (AP) -- The sale of Dutch-branded breast implants made by a French company at the center of an international scandal has been banned in Latin America's biggest country, Brazil's health ministry said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-brazil-sale-dutch-breast-implants.html Other Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:40:41 EST news245522435 Germany and the Czech Republic advised women Friday to have potentially faulty breast implants made by French firm PIP removed, but Britain said it was not convinced of the need. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-germans-czechs-french-breasts-implants.html Other Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:44:42 EST news245097876 Hundreds of thousands of women in more than 65 countries, mainly in South America and western Europe, have received breast implants that are at the centre of a health scare. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-french-breast-implant-world.html Other Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:50:31 EST news245080223 France vowed on Tuesday to investigate failures to detect faults with the French-made breast implants at the centre of a global health scare, as a senior lawmaker urged a full parliamentary probe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-france-vows-probe-breast-implant.html Other Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:35:12 EST news244802107 French breast implant manufacturer PIP used a fuel additive in its now-banned implants which the company knew were defective as early as 2005, it was revealed on Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-fuel-additive-french-breast-implants.html Other Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:44:30 EST news244709063 Holed up at his home in the south of France, the founder of troubled breast implant manufacturer PIP is fighting back against a growing international scandal over his allegedly faulty products. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-french-breast-implant-tycoon-scandal.html Health Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:32:34 EST news244283543 Brazil said Monday its AIDS epidemic was under control, with a 0.61 percent cut in new cases between 2009 and 2010, although a rise among young homosexuals was a cause for concern. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-brazil-aids.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:20:01 EST news241755032 The Food and Drug Administration has approved Abbott Laboratories' ESA test for Chagas disease, which could be a useful tool in protecting the nation's blood supply from contamination. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-fda-chagas-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:33:17 EST news241536763 A study led by Benjamin Chi of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA and colleagues reports on the development of a standard definition for loss-to-follow-up (LTFU) that can be used by HIV antiretroviral programs worldwide. Based on their findings, which are published in this week's PLoS Medicine, the authors recommend that the standard definition for LTFU should be when 180 days or more have elapsed since the patient's last clinic visit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-standard-definition-loss-to-follow-up-art-patients.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:47:48 EST news238783472 The number of young people having unprotected sex in the West has risen sharply over the past two years, a survey said Monday, with health professionals concerned the safe sex message is falling on deaf ears. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-young-people-unprotected-sex.html Health Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:18:28 EST news236247497 Against a background of high mortality rates from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Brazil, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is to deliver an educational programme at the 66th Annual Congress of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. This meeting is the largest cardiology conference in Latin America and will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from 16 to 19 September 2011. The Brazilian Society of Cardiology is an affiliated society of the ESC and has around 13,000 members. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-european-brazilian-cardiologists-cooperate-cardiovascular.html Cardiology Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:08:29 EST news235048081 Giving poor families land on which to grow crops has been shown to improve child nutrition. New research also shows that giving families non-agricultural land and better housing also is beneficial for children's growth and nutrition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-child-malnutrition-lack-food.html Health Sun, 01 May 2011 06:14:28 EST news223449252