From breast implants to prosthetic knees, implants can trigger a foreign body response that results in your body rejecting them. Suppressing an immune cell gene could reduce this risk.
It’s not just women who are the losers following the latest TGA announcement. People with all types of medical devices need better regulatory protection.
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The proposed Australian ban of some types of breast implants is too little, too late. It also reveals regulatory failures that need to be fixed if Australian consumers are to be protected.
One plastic is particularly well-suited for the kitchen’s extreme temperatures.
Oksana Shufrych
Kitchens are like mini laboratories, with foods and utensils exposed to extreme temperatures. So it’s no surprise that a material used for Mars missions has found its way into a range of cooking ware.
The number of cosmetic surgery operations in the UK hit 50,000 a year for the first time in 2013. This is worrying given that the Keogh review into the industry following the PIP scandal, which saw thousands…
The class action against the implant manufacturer has fallen over and despite the TGA’s failings, victims can’t sue the regulator.
Ilaria Gallo
The announcement this week by plaintiff law firm Tindall Gask Bentley that it was abandoning a class action against the Australian distributors of Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP) breast implants illustrates…
Despite previous breast implant scandals, Australia still fails to gather data on cosmetic procedures.
AAP
The worldwide controversy around the safety of PIP (Poly Implant Prosthèse) breast implants has elicited different responses from governments, despite all of them seemingly acting on the same set of evidence…