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 ...

SACRAMENTO (CN) – Bayer kept selling its permanent contraceptive device Essure despite 16,000 customer complaints about its safety, and it concealed incidents of bowel perforation, three women ...

Essure is a permanent birth control device that consists of two small metal coils inserted through the vagina into the fallopian tubes (see image, below). The device is popular among women and ...

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 ...

Perforated organs, metal coils lodged in colons, fetal disfigurement due to nickel poisoning. Chronic pain, exhaustion, bouts of depression and suicidal thoughts. It's the stuff nightmares are made of ...

DETROIT -- Women who are looking for cheap, quick, noninvasive methods of permanent birth control, an option other than hospital-based tubal ligation, are turning to Essure. The nonsurgical method has ...

German pharmaceutical company Bayer announced recently that it has suspended from all non-US sales the Essure coil, a controversial form of birth control which has received the strictest possible FDA ...

After years of outcry from patients who say they’ve suffered excruciating side-effects, Bayer has opted to halt sales of Essure, a controversial birth control device that consists of metal coils ...

Approximately 39,000 women filed claims saying they were injured by the device, which is a metal coil that is inserted in a fallopian tube. Bayer offices located in San Francisco's Mission Bay ...

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 ...

After years of struggling, women fighting to raise awareness about Essure birth control are finally being heard. The ABC15 Investigators first told you about thousands of women voicing their concerns ...