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 ...

Safety reports related to Bayer's Essure birth control device have been piling up at the FDA and now, the agency is making its move. It issued an order restricting the sale and distribution of Essure ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Life sciences company Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) said on Friday it would discontinue the sale of its birth control product Essure in the United States, citing a decline in sales of the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — More complaints linked to the birth control device Essure, including reports of the device breaking into pieces inside the body has been uncovered, according to WRIC. The device ...

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 ...

Four years ago, some of the women told us the pain was so serious they had hysterectomies to remove the flexible coils inserted into their fallopian tubes. Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – There are more complaints linked to the birth control device Essure, including reports of the device breaking into pieces inside the body. The device consists of two nickel ...

The Food and Drug Administration moved Monday to put sales restrictions on a Bayer birth control implant that has been a target of consumer criticism. The FDA said the Essure contraceptive device ...