SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2004--Conceptus, Inc. (NASDAQ:CPTS) announced today that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the Final Rule for the 2005 ...

The threat of a hunger strike against the Food and Drug Administration, a Facebook page titled “Essure Problems Lawsuit” and a congressional bill calling for a recall of the female contraceptive ...

NEW YORK, July 20 (Reuters) - Healthcare company Bayer on Friday said it would discontinue the sale of its birth control product Essure in the United States, citing a decline in sales of the ...

FDA released new data on side effects of Essure birth control device Side effects included lower abdominal pain and abnormal uterine bleeding Women who used Essure had higher rates of surgical ...

SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 2004--Conceptus, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTS) today provided an update on recent progress in obtaining positive third party payer coverage decisions for Essure(R).

Five months after convening an advisory committee meeting to discuss concerns about the safety of Essure, the only non-surgical permanent contraceptive, the Food and Drug Administration on Monday ...

Conceptus announced that the U.S. FDA has approved inclusion of 10 years of data on Essure effectiveness in commercial settings in the Essure procedure U.S. Instructions for Use (IFU) and Patient ...

Family planning can come with many questions, concerns and fears. Once a woman makes the personal decision to not or no longer have children, there are various types of birth control to consider and ...

DETROIT -- Women who are looking for cheap, quick, noninvasive methods of permanent birth control, an option other than hospital-based tubal ligation, are turning to Essure. The nonsurgical method has ...

Hollywood, FL, Nov. 7, 2011 – A recent first-of-its-kind survey of 1,006 mothers in the U.S. showed that more than 75 percent of women reported being done having children, but only 24 percent ...

Nine years ago, Angie Firmalino was implanted with a permanent contraceptive device called Essure. The procedure, she says, was "extremely painful," and the discomfort she felt even months later — ...