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 ...

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 ...

Your tissue grows into the metal coils, blocking conception. “Sounded like a good thing to me. I mean, I’ve got a busy life. I’ve got five kids,” Crystal Plumlee, who chose Essure because ...

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 ...

“I had the Essure coils put in and immediately my body rejected the procedure,” she said. “My leg started to tremor and I threw up a couple of times.” Within a few months, she started ...

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 ...

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 ...

The woman leading Australia’s contraceptive coil class action was likely suffering from a painful condition of the uterus and not the debilitating side effects of the Essure procedure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...