IRELAND’S Chief Medical Officer has vowed to ensure the fallout from faulty silicone breast implants affecting at least 1,500 women costs the taxpayer nothing.Dr Tony Holohan said the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) would make it a priority to force the thre
WOMEN who were fitted with faulty silicone breast implants have said they are another step closer to justice after meeting health chiefs.More than 1,500 patients in Ireland were given defective implants created by French firm Poly Implant Prothese (PIP)
COSMETIC surgery firm The Harley Medical Group is feeling the economic strain, even without being hit with a potential bill for breast implant removals.The Dublin-based private cosmetic surgery clinic has seen turnover plunge since the start of the econo
ALMOST one out of every 10 Irish women who had breast surgery with controversial PIP implants later suffered ruptures, new figures obtained by the Irish Independent reveal.The shocking extent of the impact of the defective implants is only now fully emer
ONE-in-20 women who were given the controversial PIP breast implants suffered ruptures, latest figures show.Figures compiled by the Department of Health so far show that the rupture rate in Ireland is 5pc. The ruptures happened within a month of surgery
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