'Checks Could Have Prevented PIP breast implant scandal'

"Health experts concede that if proper checks and tougher regulations were in place, the PIP breast implant scandal might not have affected so many women."

Checks 'could have prevented' PIP breast implant scandal Channel 4 News Chairing the review was the NHS medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh: "This is a pretty data-free zone - with the PIP implants, not only did organisations implanting not really keep a good record of what they had done, they didn't have a record ... See all stories on this topic » Channel 4 News

Cosmetic fillers a 'crisis waiting to happen', UK review finds Fox News An independent panel, commissioned by the government in the wake of the PIP breast implant scandal last year, said on Wednesday that dermal fillers should always need a prescription and only qualified people be allowed to use them. Bruce Keogh, the ... See all stories on this topic »

Faulty breast implant boss apologises Independent Online Lawyers representing the victims attend the hearing during the start of the trial of PIP breast implantcompany in the improvised courthouse in Marseille.More than 300,000 women around the world bought breast implants over a decade from French company ... See all stories on this topic » Independent Online

Breast implants: Call for tougher cosmetic surgery rules BBC News ... Welsh government has so far paid for 243 women to have faulty Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) implants replaced. Rebecca from south Wales, who had PIP breast implants in 2008 and has since had them replaced, spoke to Oliver Hides on BBC Radio Wales. See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Call for action on cosmetic surgery loopholes Yorkshire Post THE scandal surrounding PIP breast implants exposed “woeful lapses” in patient aftercare, implant quality and record keeping, a review has concluded. NHS medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, who chaired the independent review, called for systems ... See all stories on this topic » Yorkshire Post

Calls for tighter regulation of 'cosmetic surgery crisis' ITV News A committee set up by the Department of Health in the wake of the PIP breast implant scandal has called for tighter regulation of the UK cosmetic interventions industry. The "booming" cosmetic surgery industry has become a trivialised "everyday product ... See all stories on this topic » ITV News

Cosmetic Procedures Need Tighter Restrictions: UK Panel Bloomberg The NHS had to cover the cost of removing breast implants made by Poly Implant Prothese SA following reports that they were leaking industrial-grade, non-medical gel. Had the PIP breast implants been registered and recipients tracked following their ... See all stories on this topic »

Cosmetic surgery: Register proposed in bid to protect patients from dodgy doctors Mirror.co.uk In January last year, the Government announced that anxious women given PIP breast implants on the NHS would be able to have them removed for free, with private firms expected to offer the same deal. But it emerged that some private clinics no longer ... See all stories on this topic » Mirror.co.uk

'Cosmetic crisis' waiting to happen BBC News There have been widespread calls for reform since a health scare caused by faulty breast implants, made by the French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP). Data on which women had been given PIP implants, let alone what had happened to them, was not kept. See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Cosmetic surgery report 'too little too late' Telegraph.co.uk The report was requested by Andrew Lansley, the former health secretary, following the scandal in which 50,000 British women were given faulty breast implants. The PIP implants, made in France, were passed by European regulators but the filling was ... See all stories on this topic »

Towie blamed for 'trivialisation' of cosmetic surgery ITV News Health officials have warned as part of a review, set up in the wake of the PIP breast implant scandal, that the cosmetic surgery industry has become an "everyday product" because of programmes such as The Only Way is Essex. Interventions have been ... See all stories on this topic » ITV News

Cosmetic surgery crackdown is needed, says NHS medical director The Guardian The review was commissioned in the aftermath of the PIP breast implant scandal. Implants made by the French company were found to contain substandard industrial-grade silicone. Some private cosmetic clinic chains had inadequate records of who had ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

UK experts: Cosmetic surgery needs tighter rules - Philly.com Philly.com 21, 2011, file photo Dr. Maurice Mimoun, a plastic surgeon at the St Louis hospital in Paris holds a silicone gel breast implant made by French company Poly Implant Prothese, or PIP, that he removed from a patient because of concerns that they are unsafe. See all stories on this topic » Philly.com

A 'Cosmetic Crisis' Waiting To Happen - How Will It Affect you? Marie Claire.co.uk The review was commissioned by the Government following the PIP breast implant scandal, and the panel looked at the products used for surgical and non-surgical procedures (non-surgical includes Botox, lip fillers and laser hair removal), the people who ... See all stories on this topic »

Cosmetic Surgery is 'Crisis Waiting To Happen'; UK Demands Stricter Laws Headlines & Global News Although the report may be a good idea, PIP breast implant victim Jan Spivey said the report comes “too little too late.” "We feel very disappointed indeed that here we have another report that does not address directly any of the issues facing the ... See all stories on this topic » Headlines & Global News

Cosmetic treatment no more regulated than floor cleaner New Scientist Concern over the regulation of cosmetic treatments was triggered in 2010 after faults with breast implants made by French firm Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) went undetected. Due to a poor record-keeping, there was no way to trace the estimated 50,000 ... See all stories on this topic »

'Explosive growth' of Botox treatments putting public at risk, NHS review warns The Independent The review, set up following the PIP breast implant scandal, calls for restrictions on advertising, a national register of implantable devices and a requirement on all clinics, NHS and private, to publish their complication rates. Dermal fillers should ... See all stories on this topic » The Independent

Call to regulate 'cosmetic interventions' Financial Times Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, has led a review for the Department of Health of “cosmetic interventions”, in the wake of the scandal over faulty breast implants manufactured by PIP of France. It proposes controls for every aspect of ... See all stories on this topic »

The Art of Science: Camille Lorin's PIP Show | The Finch and Pea By scienceartness The title of the work, a simple mixed media installation of silicone breast implants hanging inside black fishnet stockings, refers to the French firm Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), whose top executives are currently on trial, facing charges of ... The Finch and Pea

PIP breast implant boss apologises | World news | The Guardian Jean-Claude Mas says sorry for first time to women who bought his firm's sub- standard implants filled with industrial silicone. www.guardian.co.uk/.../24/pip-breast-implant-boss-apologises

Calls for shake-up after PIP breast implant scandal - Birmingham Mail Elizabeth Cathey had a breast enlargement operation aged 18 but paid for her implants to be removed last year at the height of the safety scare. www.birminghammail.co.uk/.../calls-shake-up-after-pip-breast...

Maker of faulty French breast implants apologizes | Fox News Jean-Claude Mas, founder of French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), sits in the courthouse before the start of the trial of PIP breast implant company in ... www.foxnews.com/.../maker-faulty-french-breast-implants-ap...

PIP breast implant boss apologises | News168 - All the latest news The breast implant scandal triggered a global health scare and thousands of lawsuits after inspectors discovered vats of industrial-grade silicone outside French ... news168.co.uk/index/pip-breast-implant-boss-apologises

Mumbai victim of French breast implant fraud relives her terror ... Lawyers representing the victims attend the hearing during the start of the trial of PIP breast implant company in the improvised courthouse in Marseille, April 17, ... m.timesofindia.com/city/mumbai/...of.../19668818.cms