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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — To all the world, it looked like breast implants were safe. From 2008 to 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration publicly reported 200 or so complaints annually — a tiny fraction ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...