The Essure system, now owned by Bayer after it acquired Conceptus in 2013, is intended to provide non-surgical permanent birth control. The Essure nickel-titanium alloy inserts, which look like small ...

Hundreds of people have sent comments to FDA petitioning against Bayer HealthCare's Essure permanent birth control system. Most of the comments are from women who were implanted with Essure and allege ...

A postmarket surveillance study has linked Bayer’s Essure birth-control implant to a numerically higher rate of some safety outcomes than laparoscopic tubal sterilization (LTS). The latest interim ...

Angie Derry knew that her Essure implants were designed to remain inside her body forever. But two years after a doctor inserted the tiny coils into her fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy, the ...

The FDA first announced their intention to provide a safety update about Essure late yesterday evening. Today's much anticipated report comes on the heals of a private citizen petition that raised ...

Erin Brockovich doesn’t like Essure, and is working to get it banned. Essure is a type of permanent birth control for women--the system includes two small metal and fiber coils that are placed in the ...

Fidelma Fitzpatrick has been named lead counsel of the California litigation over Bayer Corp.'s Essure birth control device, the latest woman to spearhead a mass tort. Fidelma Fitzpatrick has been ...

(Reuters) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday slapped restrictions on the sale of Bayer A.G.’s implanted birth control device Essure, two years after the agency put a severe warning ...

Editor's Note: On Wednesday, Focus reported allegations raised by Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) during a press call that Bayer's permanent birth control device Essure is associated with far more ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WPVI) -- A local congressman says the FDA grossly underestimated the harm caused by a contraceptive device. And he alleges the maker paid doctors kickbacks to recommend the device to ...

NEW YORK, July 20 (Reuters) - Healthcare company Bayer on Friday said it would discontinue the sale of its birth control product Essure in the United States, citing a decline in sales of the ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday slapped restrictions on the sale of Bayer AG's implanted birth control device Essure, two years after the agency put a severe warning ...