SACRAMENTO (CN) - Bayer kept selling its permanent contraceptive device Essure despite 16,000 customer complaints about its safety, and it concealed incidents of bowel perforation, three women claimed ...

More than 200 women who have been left with 'crippling pain' after having the Essure contraceptive coil fitted can now take legal action against its manufacturer, it has been ruled. Lawyers ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — In June, 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 thousands of ...

Perforated organs, metal coils lodged in colons, fetal disfigurement due to nickel poisoning. Chronic pain, exhaustion, bouts of depression and suicidal thoughts. It's the stuff nightmares are made of ...

German pharmaceutical company Bayer announced recently that it has suspended from all non-US sales the Essure coil, a controversial form of birth control which has received the strictest possible FDA ...

Approximately 39,000 women filed claims saying they were injured by the device, which is a metal coil that is inserted in a fallopian tube. Bayer offices located in San Francisco's Mission Bay ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma women question the safety of a popular birth control. Hundreds of women say this non-hormonal permanent birth control has ruined their lives. It’s called Essure, and it’s ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WPVI) -- The Food and Drug Administration is taking a second look at a controversial contraceptive. The agency has called a public meetingfor September 24th, to hear from supporters ...

DETROIT -- Women who are looking for cheap, quick, noninvasive methods of permanent birth control, an option other than hospital-based tubal ligation, are turning to Essure. The nonsurgical method has ...