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During a laparoscopic tubal ligation, a physician makes a small cut in the abdomen, then blocks, ties or seals the fallopian tubes to keep eggs and sperm apart. Essure also involves blocking the tubes ...

For couples who want permanent birth control, the sterilization decision can be a difficult one. Vasectomy for him? Tubal ligation for her? Now, the choice may be easier. A device approved last week ...

Even though it’s no longer on the market, new data has emerged around potential side effects of the permanent birth control device Essure. The device, pulled from the US market two years ago amid ...

New surveillance data on women implanted with the ESSURE female sterilization device -- removed from the market in December 2018 -- confirm that substantial numbers suffer abnormal uterine bleeding ...

Dr. Charles Miller, of Chicago, Ill., holds a coil device that is implanted in a woman’s fallopian tubes to form scar tissue which eventually blocks fertilization. Mct file photo Carol Caruso, 37, of ...

* U.S. FDA - POSTED INTERIM RESULTS FOR POSTMARKET SURVEILLANCE STUDY ON ESSURE, A PERMANENTLY IMPLANTED BIRTH CONTROL DEVICE FOR WOMEN Sign up here. * FDA - EARLY RESULTS SHOW ESSURE TENDS TO HAVE ...

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Contraception device maker Conceptus Inc , which was sitting on a potential billion dollar women's sterilization market, now faces a growing threat from the entry of Hologic ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conceptus, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTS), developer of the Essure ® procedure, the most effective permanent birth control method available, today introduced ...

SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2004--Conceptus, Inc. (NASDAQ:CPTS) announced today that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the Final Rule for the 2005 ...