Breast implants: a registry will list patients from this summer
This file should allow better follow-up of patients. A few days ago, nearly a hundred prostheses were banned by the ...
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Flu vaccine, breast implants and diagnosis of multiple sclerosis Influenza: administration of the vaccine through the skin would be more effective Multiple sclerosis: 18% of patients receive the wrong diagnosis
Administering the vaccine against the flu through the skin and no longer into the muscle would be more effective, a ...
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Breast prostheses: ANSM bans 95 macro-textured models
France has decided to ban 95 models of macro-textured silicone and polyurethane breast implants, marketed by 6 brands.These are the ...
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Breast implants, angina screening and ever fewer smokers: the three facts of the day
Seven brands of breast implants could be banned by the ANSM, pharmacy screening tests for angina will soon be reimbursed ...
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Cancer: the safety of breast implants reassessed following several cases of lymphoma
The ANSM now advises surgeons not to use breast implants with a textured envelope. These materials have been linked to ...
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Breast implants: seven brands could be banned by the ANSM
The National Agency for Health Products (ANSM) has sent a "draft decision" to the manufacturers of seven brands of macro-textured ...
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Breast implants: a committee of experts to assess the safety of textured implants
For two days, a committee of experts brought together by the ANSM will interview health professionals and patients in order ...
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Breast cancer: let’s take stock of textured breast implants
While the ANSM awaits the opinion of a committee of experts on textured breast implants, accused of causing cancer, the ...
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Breast prostheses: another model associated with a rare and aggressive cancer
The doctor who launched the alert on the scandal of PIP breast prostheses, Christian Marinetti, accuses the Biocell model, from ...
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Breast prostheses increase the risk of cancer of the immune system
Wearing breast implants increases the risk of anaplastic large cell lymphoma, a disease of the immune system. The American agency ...
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Breast prostheses and cancer: all the questions women ask themselves
US health authorities have just alerted women to the risk of breast cancer in those who wear breast implants. What ...
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Breast implants interfere with EKGs
In women with breast prostheses, electrocardiograms often indicate signs of a heart attack, mistakenly.The observation of the heart under echocardiography ...
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PIP prosthesis: the certifier must pay 60 million euros to the victims
60 million euros in compensation. The TÜV body that certified the fraudulent PIP breast implants was ordered to compensate the ...
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Breast implant: the suspicions about the Allergan brand become clearer
29 cases of lymphoma associated with breast implants have been reported in France. The number is still increasing. The majority ...
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Breast implants: 22 cases of linked lymphomas identified
According to the ANSM, 22 cases of anaplastic large cell lymphomas have appeared in France. This type of ALCL is ...
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15,000 breast implants in the ANSM viewfinder
The ANSM announced the suspension of implants, in particular breast implants, from the company SILIMED because of the presence of ...
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PIP breast prostheses: explantations stagnate
At the end of March 2015, 18,402 women with PIP breast prostheses had had an explant, out of the 30,000 ...
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