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These medical devices enter your body, are used to treat you, but are not medications. In France, millions of patients wear them... Breast implants, hip or vaginal prostheses, stents, heart valves... Marie Maurice and Edouard Perrin examined, in collaboration with more than 250 journalists from around the world, this medical device industry which generates 316 billion euros in turnover per year. The investigative magazine presented by Elise Lucet went to meet patients whose lives turned into a nightmare after having implants. It discovered in particular that these medical devices, before being put on the market, were much less controlled by the health authorities than medications. And some are sometimes never even tested! In this exceptional issue, "Cash" also reveals how the law of the market and the race for innovation often take precedence over patients' health. And it questions the health authorities as well as the manufacturers in the sector. Implants: all guinea pigs? Director: Marie Maurice, Edouard Perrin