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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators are reviewing the safety of an implantable contraception device after receiving reports of unusual side effects from patients, including fatigue, depression ...

Federal health regulators plan to warn consumers more strongly about Essure, a contraceptive implant that has drawn thousands of complaints from women reporting chronic pain, bleeding and other health ...

Bayer gained an ally in the ongoing dispute over its contraceptive implant, dubbed Essure. Joseph Gregory, an analyst at GlobalData, stated that claims made by Erin Brockovich, a public safety ...

(NEW YORK) — 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 ...

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 ...

Bayer AG said Thursday 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 ...

YourChoice Therapeutics is already testing its drug in a larger Phase II trial. Prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraception have declined more in states that passed abortion bans ...

(Reuters) - German drugs and pesticides group Bayer AG said in a statement on its French website that it would stop selling its contraceptive implant, Essure, in countries other than the United States ...

The FDA first announced their intention to provide a safety update about Essure late yesterday evening. Today's much anticipated report comes on the heals of a private citizen petition that raised ...