The Director of NIH may conduct or support research to examine the long-term health implications of silicone breast implants, both gel and saline filled. Such research studies may include the following:
For purposes of this section, the term "breast implant" means a breast prosthesis that is implanted to augment or reconstruct the female breast.
42 U.S.C. § 289g-3
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
BREAST IMPLANTS; STUDY BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL Pub. L. 107-250, title II, §214, Oct. 26, 2002, 116 Stat. 1615, which provided that the Comptroller General was to conduct a study of information typically provided by health professionals to women on breast implant surgery and to report the findings of the study to Congress, was repealed by Pub. L. 111-8, div. G, title I, §1301(g), Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 829.