US lifts ban on silicone implants

Health authorities in the US have lifted a 14-year-long ban on silicone breast implants.

Despite lingering safety concerns, two firms will be allowed to sell implants to women reconstructing or enlarging their breasts.

Each company will be required to study the effect of the implants on 40,000 women for 10 years.

Silicone breast implants were banned for most American women in 1992 after complaints that the devices leaked.

There were accusations that leaking silicone made some women ill.

But the Food and Drug Administration said independent studies had found no evidence that silicone implants caused cancer or other diseases.

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