medicaltreatment:breast implant

Are women more likely to be harmed by medical device failures? - ICIJ
▻https://www.icij.org/blog/2018/12/are-women-more-likely-to-be-harmed-by-medical-device-failures

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The best source for gender-specific data on injuries and deaths linked to medical devices should be the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA collects that information in “adverse event” reports filed by manufacturers, doctors and others when a device has harmed a patient – or has experienced a malfunction that would lead to harm if it were to recur. An ICIJ analysis of this data identified more than 83,000 deaths and 1.7 million injuries linked to medical devices.

Yet the FDA won’t make gender information public. An agency spokeswoman told ICIJ that revealing gender or age would violate patient confidentiality rules and that more broadly, “conclusions can not be drawn” about sex-specific differences in adverse event rates, because the reports themselves often contain unverified and incomplete information.

#sexisme_médical #santé #implants #santé_publique #femmes

An Alternative to Burial and Cremation for Corpse Disposal | WIRED
▻https://www.wired.com/story/alkaline-hydrolysis-liquid-biocremation
Enfin une solution propre et sans gaspillage énergétique pour remplacer les enterrements et crémations traditionnels ?

Alkaline hydrolysis ... was conceived in the mid-’90s to solve Albany Medical College’s problem of research rabbit disposal—the bodies were radioactive and therefore could not be burned or buried affordably—and in 2003 Minnesota became the first US state to allow its use on human remains. (The business of body disposal is highly regulated at the state level, and authorities are generally wary of novelty.) In the years since, a growing number of independent funeral homes have added alkaline hydrolysis to their list of services, and last October, California became one of a dozen or so states to legalize it. Jack Ingraham, CEO of Qico, a San Diego startup that’s joined the two established players in the field—the UK’s Resomation (creator of Fisher’s machine) and Bio-Response Solutions in Indiana—expects Utah to be next, with more states to follow as awareness spreads and demand grows. “Our goal is that, in 10 or 20 years, the term ‘cremation’ will be thought of entirely as a water-based process,” he says.

Les origines du procédé sont beaucoup plus anciennes. Pour le savoir il suffit de consulter l’article de Wikipedia cité plus bas. Restons méfiants envers les auteurs de Wired l’organe central des libertarians étatsuniens.

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The alkaline hydrolysis machine turns cadavers into liquid and pure white bone.

One obstacle to wider-spread adoption: Big Funeral needs to back it, and according to Fisher, who was a funeral director before working in body donation, industry leaders have been reluctant to offer it for a simple reason: “Money,” he says. “The big corporations—Service Corporation International, Carriage, Stewart Enterprises—have set up ­billion-dollar models to sell you a casket, give you a ride to the cemetery in that hearse, sell you the cemetery plot, and put up the marker.” Alkaline hydrolysis doesn’t require any of that.
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In a crematory retort, prosthetics melt or burn or, in the case of a pacemaker’s lthium-ion battery, explode. Titanium ball-and-socket hip joints don’t come out polished like a pristine mirror as they do in Fisher’s cupboard, they come out battered with carbon. The silicon breast implant that Fisher jiggles in his hand (“We call them jellyfish”) has already spent a good few years inside a woman and four hours inside the machine, but would melt like gum in a crematory. Other implants, like plastic urinary pessaries or penile pumps, would never even be seen by a crematory worker. They melt and escape into the atmosphere through the chimney along with the mercury in your teeth.

Alkaline hydrolysis (body disposal) - Wikipedia
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_hydrolysis_(body_disposal)

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The process was originally developed as a method to process animal carcasses into plant food, patented by Amos Herbert Hobson in 1888.

#tradition #enterrement #environnement

Did my faulty breast implants kill my darling daughter ? As experts warn leaking implants may harm babies, we talk to the mothers terrified they have paid a terrible price for their vanity | Mail Online
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2329242/Did-faulty-breast-implants-kill-darling-daughter-As-experts-warn-leakin

des #femmes victimes de rupture de #prothèses #PIP craignent que leurs implants soient responsables de la maladie (#cancer ou autre) de leurs enfants ; il n’y a aucune certitude, mais le Daily Mail en a trouvé plusieurs qui se rongent les sangs

Like every other victim of PIPs, once she’s had the implants removed, Gabriella can only wait and hope that the Government is right, and that her baby, due in six months, is healthy.

It’s hope that Lucy Petagine, tragically, doesn’t have. She will forever be haunted by the thought that her PIP implants could have played some role in her daughter Luna’s death.

voir aussi : PIP Action Campaign
▻http://pipactioncampaign.org

#santé

AFP: Breast implants may delay cancer diagnosis: study
▻http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jDU7n1mfNmybxLtuxcQqdFv3IXZQ

Breast implants may delay cancer diagnosis in women, said a study Wednesday that urged a thorough probe into the potential health risks of this type of cosmetic surgery.
In a review of 12 earlier studies of breast cancer patients, a team of epidemiologists from Canada found that women with implants had a 26 percent higher risk of being diagnosed at a later stage of the disease.
This was possibly because implants cast shadows on mammograms, blocking the view of breast tissue.

#cancer #santé #chirurgie_esthétique

7,000 more women in the UK ’have faulty breast implants’ | Mail Online
►http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2115439/7-000-women-UK-faulty-breast-implants.html

The implants, manufactured by defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese, were filled with industrial-grade silicone gel intended for mattresses and can rupture, exposing the silicone to body tissue.

French authorities previously said only those implants used after 2001 may have included the unauthorised gel.
Plastic surgeon Denis Boucq holds defective PIP implants removed from a patient

But an investigation by the UK medical safety watchdog has discovered that contaminated implants may have been used in Britain since 1997.

Prothèses PIP : Retrait recommandé aux Pays-Bas
Prothèses mammaires défectueuses

Le scandale des prothèses mammaires PIP continuent à bousculer l’Europe. Aux Pays-Bas, les autorités sanitaires ont recommandé le retrait des implants posés en 2001. En Grande-Bretagne, 7.000 nouveaux cas ont été recensés.

►http://www.francesoir.fr/actualite/sante/protheses-pip-retrait-recommande-aux-pays-bas-197265.html

#PIP

New Statesman - Why breast implants don’t work
►http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2012/02/cosmetic-surgery-women-breast

We are asking the wrong question about the Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) breast implants. Yes, they rupture, releasing industrial-grade silicone mattress-filler into women’s bodies. But we don’t need new research to know what the medical outcomes will be. The effects of putting silicone into the body have been charted since the 1950s, when the first augmentations started going wrong. The right question to ask is this: why has it been allowed to continue for half a century?

Cosmetic surgery is nothing more than an industrial-scale scientific experiment. The augmentation of women’s breasts began as an application of chemical wizardry, ushered in on the gleaming wings of postwar science. The surgeon’s hypothesis has been that a problem of self-esteem can be fixed using polymers and medical technology. This didn’t always go well - in the 1950s and 1960s, women were given augmentations that sometimes went so wrong that they needed mastectomies. Now, though, the results are in.

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(via @valeria_wants sur Twitter)

#PIP #chirurgie

The Breast Implant Risk | The Scientist
►http://the-scientist.com/2012/01/26/dont-beat-your-breast-implant

il n’y a pas que le scandale #pip : toutes les prothèses mammaires posent des problèmes, pas toujours graves mais…

all breast implants come with risks: within 10 years, up to 30 percent of patients have their implants removed or replaced, according to the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2011 silicone breast implant report. Part of the reason is just standard wear and tear, said Malcolm Roth, American Society of Plastic Surgeons president and chief of plastic surgery at Albany Medical Center. “Patients shouldn’t think of these as lifelong devices.”

via @hervelc
#femmes #santé #cancer

In Venezuela, lining up for removal of #implants - Philly .com
►http://articles.philly.com/2012-02-05/news/31027301_1_breast-implants-silicone-breast-enlargement-surgery

CARACAS, Venezuela - The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, homemakers in their 40s, middle-class office workers: Nearly all are fearful that their #breast implants may be leaking.

Thousands of women worldwide are consulting their doctors about health concerns that have sprung up since December because of faulty silicone breast implants made by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese, or #PIP. In some cases, the implants filled with industrial-grade silicone have split open, prompting growing demand for their removal.

“It’s like a snowball,” said Sousa, who has been receiving dozens of patients every day since the news broke that French authorities recommended removal of the implants.

The scandal has hit beauty-obsessed Venezuela particularly hard. An estimated 16,000 Venezuelans have the implants, one of the highest figures among Latin American countries, along with much-larger Brazil, where about 20,000 women have PIP-made implants.

#cdp

Brazil - Government Will Pay to Replace Ruptured Implants
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/world/americas/brazil-government-will-pay-to-replace-ruptured-implants.html?_r=1

President Dilma Rousseff has ordered the public health system and health insurance companies to pay for the replacement of ruptured breast implants made in France, even if they were implanted for aesthetic reasons.

« even if » est de trop mais c’est déjà ça
#femmes #sexisme #santé #pip

The troubled history of #PIP's #implants man in America | Reuters
►http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/11/us-implants-idUSTRE8090XI20120111

When the French firm at the center of a breast implant scandal sought to expand its U.S. business a decade ago, it turned to Donald McGhan, a pioneer in the implant industry with a history of legal troubles.

#cancer

#Venezuela offers free removal of #PIP breast implants | Reuters
►http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/28/us-venezuela-implants-idUSTRE7BQ18Q20111228

Venezuela is offering women the free removal of breast implants made by a bankrupt French company that used industrial silicone to make cheap prostheses linked to health risks

#santé