The Essure device was implanted into women’s fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy. It left some women with chronic pelvic pain that took a hysterectomy to resolve.

Essure has been the target of thousands of complaints from women across the country, including in Connecticut. A majority of complaints cite abdominal pain, irregularities in menstrual cycles ...

Bayer said it will pay $1.6 billion to settle claims that its birth-control device Essure causes serious health complications, the latest in a string of settlements by the German company.

"Bayer's proposed settlement to resolve Essure claims would provide expedited relief to thousands of women," said Motley Rice lawyer for the plaintiffs Fidelma L. Fitzpatrick. "While we would have ...

Even though it’s no longer on the market, new data has emerged around potential side effects of the permanent birth control device Essure.

Bayer pushed back on the clinical safety of its Essure contraceptive implant—a week after the company said it would pull the device from the market at the end of the year due to poor sales—as ...

Amanda Rusmisell wanted Bayer AG’s Essure contraceptive device to wipe out any chance of a surprise pregnancy. What she didn’t bargain for was being left in blinding pain and bleeding so badly ...

Bayer Pharmaceuticals announced that it will no longer sell the permanent birth control implant Essure starting at the end of this year. Essure has courted controversy since it hit the market in 2002.

AUSTIN — Essure, a controversial permanent birth control device, will be discontinued in the U.S. by the end of the year, according to its manufacturer.

Drugmaker Bayer announced it will stop selling Essure, the controversial contraception device, in the U.S.

Bayer, the manufacturer of the Essure permanent birth control device, announced Friday that it will stop selling the controversial implant in the U.S. by the end of the year. The Essure device ...