In 2022, the Food and Drug Administration — the government agency that, among other responsibilities, oversees which medicines and medical devices are available in the United States — issued a safety ...

Since the early 60s, when breast augmentation surgery came to the mass market, there have been only two implant options: saline or silicone. The sizes changed (teardrop, round, large, small) but the ...

After the recently confirmed nine fatalities that link breast implants to anaplastic large cell lymphoma or ALCL, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is currently investigating 350 other cases of ...

Patients are requesting placement of silicone breast implants for breast augmentation with increasing frequency. Both silicone and saline breast implants have benefits and the every breast ...

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 ...

An FDA advisory panel has recommended that silicone breast implants be allowed back on the market, 11 years after they were banned for the majority of breast augmentation procedures. The saline ...

Although they don't look a day over 20, silicone breast implants celebrate the big five-o this year. They've had their ups and downs, even bouncing back from scandal, but the 50-year-old implants have ...

Silicone gel implants were taken off the market in 1992 amidst fears that they could be linked to cancer, autoimmune and connective tissue disorders (such as lupus). But since the FDA approved their ...

On Monday and Tuesday, the FDA will convene to discuss breast implants and the risks associated with them. The meeting follows a letter the FDA sent to doctors asking them to watch out for a rare form ...

WASHINGTON — The government on Friday rescinded a 14-year ban on silicone gel implants for cosmetic breast enhancement, a decision praised by some for providing women with a better product but ...

Say what you will about breast implants — and people have spoken volumes over the past three decades — they are as much a part of modern American culture as, well, Barbie, Marilyn Monroe, the Playmate ...

Plastic surgeons and the two dominant Southern California-based makers of silicone breast implants are gearing up for what they expect will be a boom in sales of the devices. The only question: How ...