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Komen breast cancer charity severs ties with Planned Parenthood
Los Angeles Times
Susan G. Komen for the Cure says it will stop funding Planned Parenthood centers. Many suspect the move is a result of political pressure by antiabortion activists. An estimated 45000 people participated in the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure in …
Susan G. Komen charity ends funding for Planned ParenthoodChicago Sun-Times
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CDC report: U.S. breast cancer screening below national targets
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In a report released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute, cancer screening among Americans remains lower than national targets. While cancer is a growing issue in the US, some Americans …
CDC: Too few Americans getting screened for common cancersUSA TODAY
CDC: Cancer Screening Below Target RatesWebMD
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Maker of Faulty Breast Implants Is Released on Bail
New York Times
PARIS — The case against the founder of a French company at the center of an international scandal over substandard breast implants advanced on Friday as he was placed under formal criminal investigation. The suspect, Jean-Claude Mas, was detained in …
Breast implant scandal: What went wrong?CNN
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Authorities in France file charges against former head of suspect breast …Washington Post

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Breast implant scandal: What went wrong?
CNN
By Bryony Jones, CNN Implants made by French company PIP have been found to contain industrial-grade silicone, instead of medical-grade ingredients. London (CNN) — The founder of a French company that made breast implants linked to a major health …
Maker of Faulty Breast Implants Is Released on BailNew York Times
French implant boss released, faces bodily harm chargeReuters
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Authorities in France file charges against former head of suspect breast …
Washington Post
MARSEILLE, France — French authorities have filed preliminary charges against the former head of a now-defunct company accused of supplying potentially faulty breast implants affecting thousands of women. A judge in the southeastern city of Marseille …
Breast implant company's founder charged, attorney saysCNN
Implants chief faces French chargesThe Press Association
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French Breast Implant Firm's Former Execs Arrested
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(ABCNEWS.com) Police in pre-dawn sweeps Thursday arrested two top former executives of the now-defunct French company at the center of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide. Jean-Claude Mas, who founded and ran …
French implant boss released, faces bodily harm chargeReuters
Implant firm's former execs arrested in FranceSan Francisco Chronicle
PIP breast implant boss Jean-Claude Mas chargedBBC News
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France breast implant company founder arrested
Los Angeles Times
Jean-Claude Mas of Poly Implant Prothese, which is embroiled in an international health scare, has acknowledged using silicone not approved for medical use. Jean-Claude Mas, founder of a breast implant maker at the center of an international health …
Cosmetic surgery unaffected by French implant scare: studyAFP
Breast implant row: Firm's boss arrestedTimes of India
PIP breast implant boss arrested in FranceBBC News
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CBC.ca

French Police Detain Founder of Breast Implant Maker
New York Times
PARIS — The founder of a French company that made hundreds of thousands of breast implants from industrial-grade silicone, causing anxiety among women around the world, was detained in a dawn raid on his home in southern France, the authorities said …
PIP breast implant boss Jean-Claude Mas arrested in FranceBBC News
Maker of Faulty Breast Implants Arrested on Manslaughter ChargesABC News (blog)
Former head of breast implant company jailed over bad implantsNew York Daily News
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Former Head of French Breast Implant Maker Arrested
TIME
By AP | January 26, 2012 | + The former head of a French company at the center of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide was arrested Thursday in southeast France, an official says. Jean-Claude Mas, who founded and ran …
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Los Angeles Times

Avastin May Help Fight Early Breast Cancer
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By Brenda Goodman, MA Jan. 25, 2012 — Don't count out the drug Avastin as a breast cancer treatment just yet. But don't count it in, either. In November, the FDA took the unusual step of nixing Avastin's approval for advanced breast cancer, …
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Breast implant scandal: firms should 'step up' says Andrew Lansley
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Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, was under pressure last night to bring in legislation to force private clinics to pay for women to have faulty breast implants removed. Women with faulty PIP breast implants march along London's Harley Street. …
PIP breast implant row boss Mel Braham gave safety advice to LabourDaily Mail
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Lansley criticises private companies for refusing to replace breast implantsThe Guardian
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Breast implants: Andrew Lansley calls for clinic action
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Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has accused private clinics which inserted potentially faulty PIP breast implants of "not stepping up to their responsibilities" in removing them. The now-banned implants were not filled with medical grade silicone. …
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PIP breast implants: Women march on private clinics
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Around 60 women have marched on private cosmetic clinics that fitted now-banned PIP breast implants, as an NHS media campaign set out government advice. Marchers in London called on clinics to replace PIP implants free of charge. …
Dozens of women march on Harley Street demanding PIP breast implants are …Daily Mail
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The Guardian

Surgeon will remove PIP breast implants for free in Jersey
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A consultant plastic surgeon who has used PIP breast implants on patients from Jersey has offered to give his time for free to remove them. Jersey's health service said no patients in the island's hospital had had breast surgery involving the implants …
Health Secretary vows to sue private clinics who refuse to remove faulty implantsTelegraph.co.uk
At least 50 Greek women with French implantsAFP
Check-ups urged for Mexicans with flawed implantsReuters
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Dutch women told to have breast implants removed
Reuters
| AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch health authorities said on Wednesday women who had breast implants made by a French company at the heart of a global health scare should have them removed because of the high risk of rupture, reversing an earlier …
PIP breast implants: Harley Medical Group will not replace implantsBBC News
Dutch urge removal of faulty PIP breast implantsAFP
Andrew Lansley: 'NHS should not pay for PIP breast implant removals'Telegraph.co.uk
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Dutch women told to have breast implants removed
Chicago Tribune
AMSTERDAM, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Dutch health authorities said on Wednesday women who had breast implants made by a French company at the heart of a global health scare should have them removed because of the high risk of rupture, reversing an earlier …
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The breast implant scandal strips away the glossy euphemisms of cosmetic surgery
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Living the dream? Katie Price (aka Jordan) is a poster girl for 'enhanced femininity' Photo: GETTY By Jenny McCartney Say what you like about PIP, the disgraced French company at the heart of the implants scandal: they might have had a serious problem …
'No recorded NHS use of implants'The Press Association
British Clarification on Implant Scandal Leaves Women Only More ConfusedNew York Times
Mixed message from UK and Germany over PIP implantsReuters
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UK breast implant victims want answers
CNN International
By Atika Shubert, CNN Bournemouth, England (CNN) — When Rowena Macintosh was deciding on whether or not to get breast implants, she told the operating surgeon that she was concerned about leaking silicone from the implants. …
British Clarification on Implant Scandal Leaves Women Only More ConfusedNew York Times
Mixed message from UK and Germany over PIP implantsReuters
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Mixed advice in Europe over faulty breast implants
The Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — European health authorities issued widely different recommendations Friday in dealing with potentially faulty French-made breast implants, with Germany and the Czech Republic following France in recommending their removal, while Britain …
UK: No cancer link from faulty breast implantsUSA TODAY
NHS shift on PIP implantsBBC News
Germany urges removal of PIP breast implantsCBS News
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BBC News

PIP breast implants: 'rupture rate low' say private clinics
BBC News
By James Gallagher Health reporter, BBC News The organisation which represents UK private breast implant clinics says the rupture rate of the banned PIP implants is not abnormally high. The implants caused a health scare after French authorities found …
Czechs tell women with PIP implants to have checksReuters
France vows probe into breast implant failuresAFP
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