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Alicia Kaur on feeling insecure about her body

‘Right now having children is not part of my…’: Supermodel Alicia Kaur on why she decided to get breast augmentation, her struggles with practicing self-love

February 27, 2025 1:30 pm

Alicia Kaur, who has documented her breast augmentation surgery on social media, was asked why she chose to go ahead with the procedure

The power of a smaller breast

September 21, 2024 4:40 pm

If a single procedure can alleviate back pain and headaches, promote mobility and fitness, and also enable a woman to un-self-consciously wear a tube top, is it a medical procedure or a cosmetic one?

Breast implants may be linked to additional cancers, FDA warns

September 09, 2022 2:18 pm

Scientists had already linked an unusual cancer called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (cancer of the immune system) primarily to textured implants

National Plastic Surgery Day: Do silicone implants increase risk of breast cancer?

July 15, 2022 1:30 pm

Before understanding how safe the breast implant procedure is, one must know the two common types of implants -- saline-filled implants and silicon-filled implants

France is first to ban breast implants linked to rare cancer

April 07, 2019 12:46 pm

Breast implants came under scrutiny in France in the last decade, in a landmark case involving the company Poly Implant Prothèse, which was accused of selling hundreds of thousands of defective implants in 65 countries.

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Explained Snippets | Breast implants: massive surge in adverse reports since 2017

December 04, 2018 12:33 am

A study by ICIJ has found that in reports from several countries submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration, there has been an upsurge in adverse events relating to breast implants in the past two years.

Implant Files: New licensing terms for medical devices, govt looks to Singapore

#ImplantFiles: In US, ortho major forced to admit it was corrupting doctors and hospitals in India

September 13, 2020 10:00 am

Stryker India has four offices in the country -- Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata -- and an annual turnover of Rs 300 crore in FY 2017-18, mainly from selling hip and knee implants, and medical devices for spine and neuro surgeries.

Silicone implants can increase a woman's risk of arthritis, stillbirth and skin cancer, says study

November 21, 2018 6:41 pm

As compared to the women with saline implants, the ones with silicone implants were also found to be at double risk of developing surgical complications as well as at an increased risk of arthritis and skin cancer.

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Tamil Nadu govt launches clinic offering breast reconstruction surgery for free

February 23, 2018 9:42 am

Apart from providing breast implants, the clinic will also allow cleft lip surgeries for children, hand transplant and treat other serious injuries.

Venezuela's newest shortage: breast implants

September 15, 2014 11:08 am

Beauty-obsessed Venezuelans face a scarcity of brand-name breast implants.

BREAST IMPLANTS VIDEOS

Implant files: Delhi's back alleys turn into operation theatres for breast implant surgeries

June 22, 2020 6:10 pm

No one is checking the implants for safety; technicians often double up as surgeons; shame and stigma prevent patients from reporting the gruesome aftermath of what has gone wrong, an investigation by The Indian Express has found.