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Breast implants register aimed at cleaning up industry

Every breast implant operation in England is to be recorded on a new register, ministers have announced.   A lack of records meant some surgeons were unable to tell their patients if they were affected by the recent scare over sub-standard PIP implants.   Ministers said they were cleaning up a "cowboy industry" steeped in "murky practices".   Health ministers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will decide if they are to join the register. Fresh...

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