Breast implant scandal

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• Breast implant scandal: victim told enhancement 100% safe – video

  Video (1min 07sec), 10 Dec 2013:

  Emma Lonsdale, 31, recalls the terrifying moment she found a lump in one of her breasts indicating a rupture

• French breast implant firm PIP's founder jailed

  10 Dec 2013: PIP boss Jean-Claude Mas sentenced to four years in jail after cheap industrial silicone used in implants

• PIP breast implants do not increase cancer risk, study finds

  29 Oct 2013: European regulator says women do not need to have implants, filled with non-medical-grade silicone, removed

• Labour promises to create a US-style consumer tsar

  6 Oct 2013: Party wants ombudsman with power to bring class actions against companies, writes Daniel Boffey

• French watchdog 'did not act fast enough on faulty PIP breast implants'

  2 Oct 2013: Report shows agency knew of dangers of substandard silicone prostheses in 2006 but did not prevent their use until 2010

• PIP breast implant campaigners question findings of independent report

  9 May 2013:

  Two scientists say they are worried about chemical in the silicone filling that could affect the development of a foetus

• PIP breast implant victims express fury at 'catastrophic' fraud trial

  17 Apr 2013: Hundreds of women attend trial of PIP boss Jean-Claude Mas and four senior staff, but lawyers say case has taken too long to come to court
  

• PIP breast implant bosses' trial for aggravated fraud begins in France

  16 Apr 2013: Company founder Jean-Claude Mas and four managers accused of supplying faulty implants that triggered a global health scare

• Royal College of Surgeons calls for end to 'casual' cosmetic treatments

  29 Jan 2013: New guidelines say only fully qualified doctors with surgical training should carry out procedures on medical premises

• UK plastic surgery statistics 2012: brows up, breasts down

  28 Jan 2013:

  Anti-ageing surgery has soared according to the latest plastic surgery statistics. Find out which procedures are going up - and which are down

• Cosmetic surgery millionaire Mel Braham owned secret offshore firm

  28 Nov 2012: Head of UK's biggest cosmetic surgery chain, Harley Medical Group, initially denied any links with company in British Virgin Islands

• The trouble with male doctors messing about with women's breasts

  12 Nov 2012: Florence Williams: Botched breast operations and industrial-grade implants – what women have endured in the name of questionable experiments

• Cosmetic surgery procedures: NHS director leading safety review

  15 Aug 2012:

  Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, is to lead the review that is welcomed by the Royal College of Surgeons

• PIP breast implants pose no long-term health threat, say experts

  18 Jun 2012: Substandard silicone gel will not damage cells or cause genetic mutation, medical team concludes after implant tests

• Health regulator must learn lessons of breast implant scandal, report warns

  14 May 2012: Health minister Earl Howe finds MHRA acted appropriately in PIP scandal but needs to improve its communication with public

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