The prototype of Essure had a ribbonlike steel outer coil soldered to a tightly wound ... Mekhi quickly caught up in size to his older brothers — today they’re often mistaken for triplets ...

One day during her shift at the nursing home where she worked, a clot the size of a baseball ... "That's normal." Essure was designed to work by inserting a two-centimetre coil into each fallopian ...

After the birth of her third child in 2008, Simonne was convinced by her doctor to take up Essure, a non-surgical ... the tiny metal coil inserted into each fallopian tube was supposed to generate ...

More than 200 women who have been left with 'crippling pain' after having the Essure contraceptive coil fitted can now take legal action against its manufacturer, it has been ruled. Lawyers ...

Essure is a type of permanent birth control that consists of two flexible coils that are inserted into the fallopian tubes through the vagina and cervix. After insertion by a physician ...

Lawyers said thousands of women around the world have the Essure coil device and said many have gone on to endure “adverse” repercussions. The German Pharma firm Bayer, which manufactures the ...

Tracy Hillier of Grand Falls-Windsor, N.L., says what was promised to be a quick and simple procedure meant to provide permanent birth control left her with near immediate effects. “It literally ...

The Essure device - a small metal coil - was inserted into the fallopian tubes to permanently prevent pregnancies, designed as a simple path to sterilisation. It was reportedly promoted as an easy ...

EmirMemedovski//Getty Images The Essure device is a flexible metal coil placed inside each of the tubes to the ovaries, causing scar tissue to form. This tissue then blocks the tubes to the ...

Hundreds of women were left with chronic pain and bleeding after having contraceptive devices known as Essure contraceptive coils implanted, some of whom suffered so much that they required a ...

Essure, approved by the FDA in 2002 for women ages 21 to 45, is a flexible coil that is inserted by doctors into the fallopian tubes. An estimated 750,000 women have received the product ...