GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Pamela Dowd drove her 20-year-old motor home 2,500 miles from Boise, Idaho, to tell a government panel how her silicone breast implants led to health problems that had sapped her ...

Silicone breast implants were pulled off the market in 1992 amid concerns that leaks from the implants could lead to cancer or autoimmune disease. Five years ago, revamped products returned to the ...

PHOENIX (CN) - A breast cancer survivor says in Federal Court that the Allergan silicone implants she received after a mastectomy gave her migraines, fungal feet and vision loss. Nicole Weber says her ...

(CBS) Safety concerns drove silicone-gel breast implants from the U.S. market for 14 years. Then, in 2006, the FDA made them available again. Now, in its first major review of follow-up studies, it ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Wednesday that women receiving silicone-gel breast implants have frequent complications like scarring or hardening breasts, and 20% or more of patients ...

The dramatic comeback of silicone breast implants -- which were once virtually extinct amid health worries and a crush of litigation -- accelerated Wednesday with a conditional approval from ...

Just a few years ago, Inamed Corp. was struggling for survival after years of litigation from women convinced that the company’s silicone gel implants had irrevocably damaged their health. These days, ...

Silicone breast implants have made a big comeback in cosmetic procedures, a little more than six years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted its ban on most use of the devices. In 2012, ...

This year began with a breast implant scandal. This one has brought back memories of the one early in my private practice. The current one involves the PIP-branded breast implants produced by the ...

Thicker shells and stickier silicone make today's silicone-gel breast implants less prone to break and leak than versions sold years ago, Inamed Corp. argued Tuesday in asking the government to end a ...

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Today the Food and Drug Administration said that silicone breast implants are generally safe, when used as intended. And the devices don't seem to cause autoimmune disease, breast cancer, or ...