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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...