Breast Implants Linked to Higher Suicide Rate (SPACE.com / LiveScience.com)

Jeanna Bryner LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Wed Sep 20, 10:30 AM ET Boosting breast size with plastic surgery has been linked to a significantly higher suicide rate among women in a new 15-year study. While overall risk of health problems did not change, the suicide rate was much higher for women with breast implants compared with the general population, scientists announced today. Jacques Brisson and Louis Latulippe of Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and their colleagues from the ...