Implant Files
Women who suffered serious harm and scientists who conducted research for industry offered conflicting testimony to an expert panel reviewing mesh safety.
Brazil’s Natalia Viana co-founded Agência Pública, a women-led investigative news outlet that focuses on human rights, gender equality and abuses of corporate and government power.
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.
Investors have filed a class action lawsuit against breast implant manufacturer Allergan, alleging the company concealed the association between textured breast implants and a rare form of cancer.
Journalist Scilla Alecci went to India to report on Medtronic for the Implant Files and despite monsoon conditions, she makes some interesting discoveries.
Thirty-nine Latin American journalists from 11 media outlets participated in ICIJ’s global examination of the medical device industry and its regulators.