Create National Breast-Implant Registry to Help Prevent Complications: Committee

Create National Breast-Implant Registry to Help Prevent Complications: Committee
A nurse holds defective breast implants in Nice, southern France, on Jan.10, 2012. The Canadian Press/AP-Lionel Cironneau
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The House of Commons health committee is echoing long-standing calls from plastic surgeons and patient advocates for a national breast-implant registry to prevent illness and problems linked to the medical devices.

The committee says in a report on Nov. 30 that a national registry would allow the federal government to trace specific implants, contact patients in the case of a recall, and contribute to research related to breast implants.