Top health officials’ plea adds to pressure for a regulatory overhaul following concern at substandard breast implants

This really does amuse me: America’s largest breast cancer advocacy group has been forced to make a self-abasing retraction of its plan to cut funding for Planned Parenthood following a huge outcry against the decision. Yes, yes, I know the politics. If you’re against breast cancer then you’re in favour of all sorts of wimmins’

European Commission is to toughen regulation of medical devices as a result of concerns over PIP products despite scientific review

UK Health Secretary Andrew Lansley demands his department is notified in advance of any "contradictory" public health policies in Wales after a row over faulty breast implants.

Surgeons warned the medical products watchdog about PIP breast implants in early 2010 and Nuffield Health made an unheeded request on data collection

The review into the PIP breast implant scandal is looking at introducing an insurance scheme to help protect future cosmetic surgery patients, the man leading the review tells the BBC.

The breast implant scandal was "an inevitable result" of "paralysis" at the healthcare regulator, according to the editor of The Lancet, who has accused it of having a "do nothing" attitude.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley accuses private clinics which inserted potentially faulty PIP breast implants of "not stepping up to their responsibilities" in removing them.

The Government has launched an advertising campaign to limit demand for NHS surgery to remove faulty breast implants.

Such is the argument deployed by the editor of the UK’s leading medical journal, Richard Horton, in analysing the implications of both the recent breast implant scare and the Health and Social Care Bill for the NHS. Horton acknowledges that the specific case of PIP, and the industrial-grade silicone they appear to have used in