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A breast implant scandal affecting thousands of women this year damaged confidence and highlighted the need to tighten controls in Europe on everyday medical devices, the European Commission said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-eu-tighten-medical-breast-implant.html Other Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:35:56 EST news267870950 (HealthDay)—Treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with severe hand deformities with a silicone metacarpophalangeal joint arthroplasty (SMPA) procedure produces significant, long-term improvement in hand function and appearance, according to research published in the September issue of Arthritis Care & Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ra-surgery-function.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:59:48 EST news265910378 Faulty breast implants made by PIP, the French company that sparked a global health scare, do not pose any long-term medical threats, British health authorities said in a final report Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-faulty-pip-breast-implants-toxic.html Other Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:41:38 EST news259220492 French health authorities said Monday that nearly 8,000 French women had followed a government recommendation to have faulty breast implants that sparked a global health scare removed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-french-women-faulty-breast-implants.html Surgery Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:22:34 EST news258042148 A pair of British plastic surgeons said Tuesday the rupture rate of PIP breast implants behind a global health scare may be as high as one in three, significantly more than previously thought. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pip-implants-rupture-british-surgeons.html Other Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:33:49 EST news253881220 New research published in the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery suggests that the failure rate of silicone breast implants manufactured by Poly Implant Prosthèse (PIP) could be as high as 33.8%. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pip-implant-failures-significantly-higher.html Surgery Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:34:55 EST news253877689 We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better ... stronger ... faster. -Opening to "The Six Million Dollar Man" http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-prosthetics-personal.html Other Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:10:01 EST news253270117 Brazil said Wednesday it has temporarily suspended the import of breast implants pending quality control tests in the wake of last December's health scare over defective French-made implants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-brazil-temporarily-breast-implant-imports.html Surgery Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:22:34 EST news251554943 Around 7,000 more women than first thought in Britain have received potentially faulty PIP breast implants, the government said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-women-britain-implants.html Surgery Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:23:52 EST news251040225 Belgium's health authorities on Wednesday advised women with defective breast implants made by French firm PIP to have them removed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-belgium-women-pip-breast-implants.html Other Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:32:51 EST news247321965 (AP) -- The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, housewives in their 40s, middle-class office workers: nearly all are fearful that their breast implants may be leaking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-venezuelans-line-pip-breast-implants.html Other Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:20:56 EST news247234850 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 A French judge on Friday charged the founder of the breast implant company at the heart of a global health scare with "involuntary injuries", his lawyer said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-french-boss-breast-implant-firm.html Other Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:50:03 EST news246860736 Dutch women wanting to replace potentially defective breast implants made by now-defunct French company PIP will be paid back in full, the Dutch health insurance federation said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-dutch-women-reimbursed-breast-implant.html Other Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:58:07 EST news246808678 Brazil's Silimed, the third-biggest manufacturer of silicon breast implants in the world, has suddenly found itself in the eye of a global firestorm. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-brazil-implant-maker-eye-global.html Other Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:04:45 EST news246348263 German chemicals distributor Brenntag denied Friday any wrongdoing in the health scandal surrounding French-made breast implants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-german-firm-denies-wrongdoing-breast.html Other Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:00:02 EST news245678349 The government said Thursday it would pay for surgery on Brazilian women to remove defective French-made and Dutch-made breast implants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-brazil-defective-breast-implants.html Other Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:51:02 EST news245591356 Dutch health authorities on Wednesday recommended the removal of breast implants made by now-defunct French company PIP after conflicting reports about the product's safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-dutch-faulty-pip-breast-implants.html Other Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:00:06 EST news245494126 (AP) -- Consumer safety advocates are questioning the Food and Drug Administration about seemingly incomplete and erroneous data used to affirm the safety of silicone breast implants last year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-consumer-group-breast-implants.html Other Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:05:49 EST news245005541 The founder of the French breast implant maker at the centre of a global health scare said Thursday much of the information emerging in the scandal was untrue but refused further comment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-french-breast-implant-maker-denounces.html Other Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:19:15 EST news244991950 (AP) -- Australian health officials said they have found no evidence that potentially faulty French-made breast implants are at an increased risk of rupture in Australian women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-australia-higher-french-implants.html Other Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:56:06 EST news244958155 (AP) -- Britain's health secretary has demanded that private U.K. clinics supply data by the end of the week on how many French-made PIP breast implants have ruptured in Britain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-uk-demands-breast-implant-ruptures.html Other Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:24:40 EST news244902273 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 French health authorities said Friday that 20 cases of cancer had been uncovered in women with allegedly faulty French-made breast implants but insisted there was still no proven link with the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-cancer-cases-french-women-pip.html Cancer Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:56:13 EST news244468564 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 The US Food and Drug Administration warned a French maker of breast implants now feared to be at risk of rupture of "serious" quality control violations involving saline implants back in 2000. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-french-implant-maker.html Other Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:53:46 EST news244255976 Breast implants made by troubled French firm PIP have been at the heart of multiple lawsuits in the United States, where they were sold up until 2000, documents filed with the US government show. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-french-breast-implant-maker-lawsuits.html Other Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:17:49 EST news244149405 France took a costly and unprecedented leap Friday in offering to pay for 30,000 women to have their breast implants removed because of mounting fears the products could rupture and leak cheap, industrial-grade silicone into the body. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-france-risky-breast-implants_1.html Other Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:42:41 EST news243927714 France's health ministry Friday advised 30,000 women with breast implants made by French firm PIP to have them removed, saying that while there is no proven cancer risk the prostheses could rupture. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-france-breast-implants.html Other Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:37:06 EST news243859013