No, I'm not a celebrity – I'm a breast cancer patient. For people living with metastatic disease, oftentimes medicine side effects are worse than the symptoms of the cancer itself, and such is the ...

Last year marked a record number of lip implants in the United States, according to data released this week from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Surgeons completed more than 27,000 ...

When it comes to breast augmentation, which involves breast implants, there are actually two types to choose from: saline and silicone. While they achieve a similar look and are both approved by the ...

Allergan's silicone breast implants gained premarket approval in 2002 after a four-year study. After a 14-year hiatus, silicone breast implants have been welcomed back onto the U.S. market with equal ...

(Reuters Health) - Women with silicone breast implants may have a higher risk of certain medical problems than women who don't get implants, but more research is needed to get a complete picture of ...

A record number of Americans underwent lip augmentation procedures in 2015, making them the second ­fastest growing facial procedure in the United States since 2000, according to new data from the ...

Women receiving silicone breast implants may be at increased risk of several rare adverse outcomes compared to the general population, reports a study in Annals of Surgery. "We are reporting an ...

WASHINGTON — Women pleaded with the government on Tuesday to continue a ban on most silicone gel breast implants, telling of years of pain and suffering they blame on leaking devices. As many as 46 ...

A 1995 Texas Monthly article nicknamed Houston "Silicone City," referring not to the actual implant — the Food and Drug Administration had banned that three years earlier — but the booming business of ...

Ever since women began enlarging their breasts with implants, feminists have been upset. So, predictably, when a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel begins hearings today to consider approval ...