The decline of the A-cup.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

The performance of one medical device, the silicon breast implant, has received attention from the FDA--and from the media. FDA hearings on the implant's safety, the approval of one manufacturer's version, and the disapproval of another were lead stories on ABC's "World News Tonight" and in The New York Times. Why so much attention for this one device, I wondered? I imagined it to be of concern to only a small number of...