Europe
The expansion of a list of jurisdictions linked to money laundering or terrorist financing has attracted criticism from some of the included countries.
Jean-Claude Juncker’s legacy remains tainted by his Luxembourg past as he bows out as the European Commission president this year.
A committee convened by France’s medical device safety authority has stopped short of calling for the total removal of textured breast implants.
The German Government has proposed legislation to create a national register to improve controls on medical implants just two months after the Implant Files was first published.
Medical tourism operators are luring patients to Africa for operations that leave them in crippling pain and with little more than WhatsApp messages for support.
Politicians, regulators, and prosecutors across Europe have begun reacting to Implant Files revelations that exposed questionable practices, safety failures and regulatory lapses…
More than 2,000 patients around the world say they were not warned about the potential harm related to their medical implant.
The newly-announced European investigation into suspected illegal state aid follows ICIJ’s Paradise Papers reporting, which uncovered details of Nike’s global tax strategy.
Senior doctors, consumer groups and transparency campaigners want manufacturers of high-risk medical devices to be forced to make safety data public.
Government regulators, industry lobbyists and medical experts scrambled to get ahead of ICIJ’s latest investigation, the Implant Files, before the first word was even published.