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Belgium advises women to have PIP breast implants removed
Belgium's health authorities on Wednesday advised women with defective breast implants made by French firm PIP to have them removed.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Light but stable: novel cellulose-silica gel composite aerogels
(PhysOrg.com) -- Delicate and translucent as a puff of air, yet mechanically stable, flexible, and possessing amazing heat-insulation properties—these are the properties of a new aerogel made of cellulose ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Cosmetic surgery unaffected by French implant scare: study
Cosmetic surgery is booming worldwide and unaffected by the health scare prompted by a French breast implant company that used substandard silicone, a global body of plastic surgeons said Friday.
Jan 27, 2012 |
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French judge charges boss of breast implant firm
A French judge on Friday charged the founder of the breast implant company at the heart of a global health scare with "involuntary injuries", his lawyer said.
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Dutch women reimbursed for breast implant removals
Dutch women wanting to replace potentially defective breast implants made by now-defunct French company PIP will be paid back in full, the Dutch health insurance federation said Thursday.
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Brazil implant maker in eye of global storm
Brazil's Silimed, the third-biggest manufacturer of silicon breast implants in the world, has suddenly found itself in the eye of a global firestorm.
Jan 21, 2012 |
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German firm denies wrongdoing in breast implant scandal
German chemicals distributor Brenntag denied Friday any wrongdoing in the health scandal surrounding French-made breast implants.
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Brazil to pay for removal of defective breast implants
The government said Thursday it would pay for surgery on Brazilian women to remove defective French-made and Dutch-made breast implants.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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French breast implant maker denounces 'untruths' in scandal
The founder of the French breast implant maker at the centre of a global health scare said Thursday much of the information emerging in the scandal was untrue but refused further comment.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Australia: No higher risk from French implants
(AP) -- Australian health officials said they have found no evidence that potentially faulty French-made breast implants are at an increased risk of rupture in Australian women.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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France vows probe into breast implant failures
France vowed on Tuesday to investigate failures to detect faults with the French-made breast implants at the centre of a global health scare, as a senior lawmaker urged a full parliamentary probe.
Jan 03, 2012 |
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French breast implant firm used fuel additive
French breast implant manufacturer PIP used a fuel additive in its now-banned implants which the company knew were defective as early as 2005, it was revealed on Monday.
Jan 02, 2012 |
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20 cancer cases in French women with PIP implants: agency
French health authorities said Friday that 20 cases of cancer had been uncovered in women with allegedly faulty French-made breast implants but insisted there was still no proven link with the disease.
Dec 30, 2011 |
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French breast implant tycoon hits back as scandal grows
Holed up at his home in the south of France, the founder of troubled breast implant manufacturer PIP is fighting back against a growing international scandal over his allegedly faulty products.
Dec 28, 2011 |
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Breast implant maker used non-approved gels: lawyer
The founder of the French firm that made breast implants feared to be at risk of rupturing has admitted using non-approved but non-toxic silicone gels, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Dec 27, 2011 |
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Gel
A gel (from the lat. gelu—freezing, cold, ice or gelatus—frozen, immobile) is a solid, jelly-like material that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough. Gels are defined as a substantially dilute cross-linked system, which exhibits no flow when in the steady-state. By weight, gels are mostly liquid, yet they behave like solids due to a three-dimensional cross-linked network within the liquid. It is the crosslinks within the fluid that give a gel its structure (hardness) and contribute to stickiness (tack). In this way gels are a dispersion of molecules of a liquid within a solid in which the solid is the continuous phase and the liquid is the discontinuous phase.
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