In February, researchers at the University of Illinois told the American Association for the Advancement of Science that they had made progress turning stem cells into “natural” breast implants.
Jerry Mao of the University of Illinois said his group took stem cells that would normally turn into fatty tissue and grew them on a special […]
U.S. News reported this month on a Danish study designed to examine the effect of breast implants for cosmetic suicides on suicide rates.
The researchers studied the records of more than 10,000 women — 2,788 who had cosmetic breast implants; 7,071 who had breast reductions; and 1,736 who had cosmetic surgery other than breast implants.
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Two recent studies of women with breast implants confirmed what previous studies had found — such women had a higher suicide rate than women without breast implants.
A Dutch looked at the cause of death for 3,521 Swedish women who had breast implant surgery between 1965 and 1993. In that group there were 15 suicides. […]
An interesting example of the hypocrisy of groups like the National Organization for Women is its recent public opposition to the possible re-introduction of silicone breast implants. NOW argues that there is not enough long term data to justify saying that silicone breast implants are safe, but NOW’s real objection seems to be that […]
In 1992, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “temporarily” banned silicone breast implants until further studies cleared up whether they posed health risks. So what do you do if you’re a government agency and your $4 million dollar 8 year study once again demonstrates that implants are safe? You don’t tell anyone.
Salon.Com originally broke […]