RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced new actions to further regulate the controversial birth control product Essure. The FDA is calling for a new, mandatory ...

It's called the Essure system. But millions of women still don't know it's available. The FDA agrees when it comes to permanent birth control, this is an easier option than surgery to get your tubes ...

After months of consideration, FDA has revealed next steps in its oversight of Essure permanent birth control. The agency is requiring maker Bayer to add a boxed warning and patient decision checklist ...

A popular form of birth control will receive a new boxed warning from the Food and Drug Administration, a new patient decision checklist and the company that makes the device has to complete a new ...

A Pennsylvania congressman has introduced a federal bill to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s approval for a contraceptive that has been the subject of thousands of complaints from women.

WHIPPANY, N.J., July 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Bayer is reminding women with Essure that the safety profile of Essure, the only Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved non-incisional form of ...

Bayer is continuing the war of words against “The Bleeding Edge,” Netflix’s documentary about harms inflicted by the massive medical-device industry. The Netflix film includes an examination of ...

Two years after Bayer threw in the towel and agreed to stop selling its controversial Essure birth control implant in the United States, the company might finally be able to put the issue in the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 28, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conceptus, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTS), developer of the Essure® procedure, the most effective non-surgical permanent birth control method available, ...

Co announces the approval of its third generation Essure permanent birth control system by the FDA. System modifications include changes to the delivery system that reduce the number of steps a ...