There is no evidence that women who have PIP breast implants are at higher risk of cancer, European regulators have concluded.

Medical devices firms will be forced to pay significant pre-market “risk assessment” charges if they want to sell their products under new patient safety laws.

Hundreds of women given faulty breast implants have gathered at a French court for the trial of five executives accused of using cheap industrial silicone in their manufacturing.

A Roscommon woman, who had defective silicone gel prostheses implanted in her breasts, is to ask a court for judgment against the Dublin-based Harley Medical Group (Ireland) Limited.

A Co Roscommon woman, who had defective silicone gel prostheses implanted in her breasts, is to ask a court for judgment against the Dublin-based Harley Medical Group (Ireland) Limited.

Ruptured PIP breast implants should not cause any long-term health problems, experts have said.

Ruptured PIP breast implants should not cause any long-term health problems, experts in the UK have said.

Representatives from the PIP Action Group say they have had a "very positive" meeting with the state's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan.

The country’s Chief Medical Officer has vowed to ensure the fallout from faulty silicone breast implants affecting at least 1,500 women costs the taxpayer nothing.

Pregnant women are living with the nightmare of being unable to remove their ruptured breast implants, which are leaking industrial grade silicone, until their babies are born.

Private clinics which offered PIP breast implants in Ireland “can do what they want” because they are not regulated, the country’s medicines watchdog has said.

Laws to regulate the cosmetic surgery industry are being prepared, according to Health Minister James Reilly.

A mother of one said she was told she deserved cancer after she revealed that she was one of the women fitted with the breast implants that sparked a global health scare.

A French judge has charged the founder of the breast implant company at the heart of a global health scare with causing “involuntary injuries“, prosecutors said.

French authorities have filed preliminary charges against the former head of a now-defunct company embroiled in a scandal over possibly faulty breast implants affecting thousands of women.

The former head of a French company at the centre of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide, was arrested along with his former deputy yesterday.

The former senior executive of the French company at the centre of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide has been arrested, police said today.

FRENCH breast implant manufacturer PIP used a fuel additive in its now-banned implants which the company knew were defective as early as 2005, it was revealed yesterday.

FRANCE’S health minister tried to calm women’s fears over potentially dangerous breast implants yesterday, saying there was no medical need to remove them immediately.

France has agreed to pay for 30,000 women to have potentially faulty breast implants removed, as authorities called for those behind their manufacture to be held responsible.

The chief executive of a French company whose questionable breast implants are under international scrutiny is on the Interpol police agency’s most-wanted list.

FEARS over the safety of silicone breast implants made by a now defunct French firm spread to Australia, South America and across Europe, as French officials prepared to decide if thousands of women should have their implants surgically removed.

HUNDREDS of Irish women are being warned about faulty breast implants in a safety alert issued by the Irish Medicines Board.