After two years of consideration, the FDA has restricted the sale of breast implants to healthcare providers that use an FDA-approved patient-decision checklist to discuss the benefits and risks of the implants with patients....more
Angry women, anxious that officials were failing to protect their health, besieged a federal Food and Drug Administration hearing in the spring. That unusual outcry may have helped push regulators off their bureaucratic...more
Uncle Sam has paid what critics have called long overdue attention to women’s breasts and how surgeons and diagnosticians treat them....more