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Silicone gel breast implants approved for return

Updated Fri. Oct. 20 2006 6:07 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Health Canada has lifted restrictions on silicone breast implants, giving two manufacturers permission to market their products in Canada. MORE...

Ban lifted on silicon breast implants

April 21, 2005

By Jessica Yu

"We live in a toxic culture," said Donovan Yisrael, community health specialist at Vaden Student Health Clinic, referring to the negative body-image messages delivered to men and women through the media. MORE...

Breast Implant Study Results Reflect Funding

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2006

PRNewswire

As the FDA considers whether to approve silicone gel breast implants for the first time, three newly published peer-reviewed studies provide information that makes the decision more difficult for the FDA. MORE...

Chemist Gets Fired After Calling Breast Implant Unsafe

The Scientist 1989, 3(17):7

Published 4 September 1989

OTTAWA—Research chemist J.J.B. Pierre Blais joined the health protection branch of Canada’s Department of National Health and Welfare in 1976 in the midst of a productive career in the federal science bureaucracy. He had spent seven years at the National Research Council, and looked forward to many more satisfying years with his new agency. MORE...

EU considers breast implant measures

Wednesday, 21 March, 2001, 11:09 GMT

(BBC) -- Measures to improve the safety of silicone breast implants are being considered by the European Commission. MORE...

MPs call for removal of Health Canada's breast-implant panel members

Laura Eggertson, Nov 8, 2005 with files from Sally Murray, CMAJ (the Canadian Medical Association Journal)

Opposition MPs are calling on Health Canada to remove members of an expert advisory panel on breast implants, or to suspend the panel's work, because at least 3 members have ties to manufacturers of the medical devices. MORE...