PIP Update
The cosmetic surgery industry faces a clampdown in the wake of the PIP breast implants scandal. It is reckoned that some 47,000 women in the UK have had implants made by the French company Poly Implant...
View ArticleAnkle replacement alert
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) recently issued a warning in relation to a total ankle replacement implant. The Biomet AES, also known as the Transystème AES, was...
View ArticleAcne drug linked to deaths in France
A French health watchdog has launched an inquiry into the drug Diane-35 used to treat acne and also as a contraceptive after linking it to four deaths over some 25 years. According to a report by...
View ArticleDo faulty breast implants compromise our unborn babies, too?
Calls for breast implant compensation, it appears, should perhaps bear in mind the potential risks on unborn babies of affected women of reproductive age, as well as their own health and wellbeing....
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