Jean-Claude Mas, founder of the French company PIP, which produced substandard breast implants has been jailed for bail default. After being taken ...

Private clinics at the centre of the PIP breast implant scandal are claiming they do not have "the skills" to treat affected patients, experts have wa...

You'd have been forgiven for thinking The Sun had taken over the national press this week what with all the column inches devoted to British women's breasts... As thousands of women counted down the days and hours to discover the official line on the potential ticking time-bombs sitting within their bodies, arguments raged over whether it was fair the tax payer foot the bill for the removal of the PIP implants and in amongst it all we appeared to gloss over the more important issue at hand: why so many thousands of women, year after year, feel compelled to have surgery in the first place.

All women with faulty breast implants should have them removed given the "uncertainty and lack of knowledge" about the extent of the problems, a leadi...