Last month, it looked like the thousands of women who have suffered detrimental side effects from the birth control device "Essure" were finally being heard. After receiving a thousands of complaints ...

Essure is a permanent birth control device that consists of two small metal coils inserted through the vagina into the fallopian tubes (see image, below). The device is popular among women and ...

A permanent birth-control implant called Essure will need to be labeled with a stronger warning that lists potentially serious risks of the device, the Food and Drug Administration announced this week ...

Bayer will discontinue the marketing and sales of the sterilization device Essure in all countries outside of the United States, the company announced on Monday. While a number of reports have linked ...

Federal health regulators plan to warn consumers more strongly about Essure, a contraceptive implant that has drawn thousands of complaints from women reporting chronic pain, bleeding and other health ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Life sciences company Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) said on Friday it would discontinue the sale of its birth control product Essure in the United States, citing a decline in sales of the ...

WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – After suffering symptoms of extreme pelvic pain, bleeding and migraines, former users of a birth control device known as Essure are pushing for Congress to immediately ...

After receiving thousands of complaints about the adverse effects of the birth control implant Essure, the FDA announced late Wednesday that it has updated the list of risks and complications ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON — The maker of a permanent ...

Five months after convening an advisory committee meeting to discuss concerns about the safety of Essure, the only non-surgical permanent contraceptive, the Food and Drug Administration on Monday ...

A new study appears to confirm what some women have said about a permanent birth control device called Essure. Researchers found that women who used the device had 10 times as many operations to fix ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conceptus, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTS),developer of the Essure® procedure, the most effective non-surgical permanent birth control method available, ...