RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Essure, a popular form of birth control, was marketed in 2002 as a permanent birth control without surgery. But, according to the Food and Drug Administration, more than 4,700 ...

Bayer will pay about $1.6 billion and settle nearly all of the U.S. lawsuits that, over several years, have claimed the company’s Essure birth control implant caused serious injuries. The German ...

Bayer pushed back on the clinical safety of its Essure contraceptive implant—a week after the company said it would pull the device from the market at the end of the year due to poor sales—as public ...

LEVERKUSEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bayer announced today that it has reached agreements with plaintiff law firms to resolve approximately 90% of the nearly 39,000 total filed and unfiled U.S.

Under the Affordable Care Act, many health insurance plans cover FDA-approved methods of birth control for women at no cost. In an ambulatory setting, the total cost of Essure procedures was found to ...

Health Canada to Develop Better Risk Communications on Essure Contraceptive Devices Canadian drug and device regulator Health Canada on Monday said it is working with Bayer to develop better risk ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials on Monday placed new restrictions on a permanent contraceptive implant that has been subject to reports of painful complications from thousands of women. But the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conceptus, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTS), developer of the Essure ® procedure, the most effective non-surgical permanent birth control method available*, ...