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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – After suffering symptoms of extreme pelvic pain, bleeding and migraines, former users of a birth control device known as Essure are pushing for Congress to immediately ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Since it was approved to go on the market in 2002, Essure, an implantable permanent contraceptive device, has been plagued by controversy. Thousands of women have filed grievances with the US Food and ...

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 ...