Essure, approved by the FDA in 2002 for women ages 21 to 45, is a very soft, flexible metal spring made from a nickel-titanium alloy. OB-GYNs insert one Essure coil into each fallopian tube. Over ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved Essure for sale in 2002. But with health complaints on the rise from women using the device, the agency's expert panel now urges more study on complications.

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 ...

A Facebook group called Essure Problems where members share their stories and complaints with the device currently has more than 34,000 members. In its statement, Bayer affirms that "Essure's ...

Litigation involving the permanent sterilization device Essure is costing its maker, the multinational conglomerate Bayer AG. In 2016, Germany-based Bayer incurred impairment losses of $413 ...

Essure distribution has been discontinued “for commercial reasons only,” according to Bayer. Under the Affordable Care Act, many health insurance plans cover FDA-approved methods of birth ...

Bayer says the safety of Essure in women over 45 isn’t known. Women with more health complications may have been more likely to opt for a surgery-free method of sterilization.

Essure’s manufacturer says clinical trials show the procedure is 99.83 percent effective at preventing pregnancy over a five-year period when used according to approved instructions.

A breakthrough contraceptive implant made its way on the market more than 10 years ago. Thirteen years later, thousands of women want Essure to go, the New York Times reported. Essure ...

Between Nov. 4, 2002, when it approved Essure, and the end of 2015, the Food and Drug Administration received nearly 10,000 Essure-related reports including pain, device migration or breakage, and ...

FDA orders followup studies by Essure maker Bayer "Black box warning" mandated for packaging of implantable contraceptive device. FDA reports 631 pregnancies among women with device, 294 of them ...