And according to Amanda Rusmisell, a legislative liaison for the Essure Problems advocacy group, many of those doctors are unwilling to even try. “So many women in our group have gone back to the ...

Pharmaceutical giant Bayer said Friday that it will halt sales of its controversial Essure birth-control device in the United States at the end of the year, bringing to a close a protracted battle ...

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 ...

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 million in ...

In 2009, Angie Firmalino had two tiny nickel coils placed in her fallopian tubes — the inserts of the permanent birth control device Essure, billed as revolutionary for being implanted nonsurgically ...

Pharmaceutical giant Bayer said Friday that it will halt sales of its controversial Essure birth-control device in the United States at the end of the year, bringing to a close a protracted battle ...

Bayer will pay $1.6 billion to settle lawsuits from thousands of American women who said they developed debilitating long-term health problems from the pharmaceutical giant’s product, the Essure birth ...

Essure birth control was first approved in 2002. — -- U.S. regulators said they would review a popular birth control implant device at a panel this week following multiple complaints. The implant ...

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Since 2002, Essure has been marketed as a permanent birth control method for women that is convenient and can be performed in their own doctor’s office. The procedure is simple: A 4-centimeter metal ...