Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nuance Medical has acquired Biocorneum, a silicone gel scar treatment brand. The acquisition will go into effect ...

A premature infant weighing barely two pounds receives nutrition through a plastic IV line for weeks on end. A new mother sterilizes a polypropylene baby bottle with boiling water, then shakes up ...

Silicone gel implants were taken off the market in 1992 amidst fears that they could be linked to cancer, autoimmune and connective tissue disorders (such as lupus). But since the FDA approved their ...

The Food and Drug Administration reaffirmed its position that silicone-gel breast implants are “safe and effective for their intended use,” an FDA official said Wednesday, although the agency is ...

Scars are like unwanted souvenirs—you never ask for them, but you end up stuck with them anyway. Maybe yours came from a surgery, a bike accident, or a kitchen mishap. Mine? An iron burn. It happened ...

Attempts to improve the look of the breast by augmenting its size and shape date back to the late 1880s. Among the materials inserted in breasts early on were ivory, glass balls, ground rubber, ox ...

Thirteen years after most silicone-gel breast implants were banned, federal health advisers on Tuesday narrowly rejected a manufacturer’s request to bring them back to the U.S. market, citing ...

A new silicone breast implant is hitting the market. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the Natrelle 410 Highly Cohesive Anatomically Shaped Silicone-Gel Filled Breast Implant. The implant ...

MUNICH, Germany—Wacker Chemie A.G. will showcase a next-generation of medical silicones, specifically in the self-adhesive liquid silicone space, at Compamed 2022. The conference is set for Nov. 14-17 ...