“I feel like a guinea pig,” she tells me. Essure is but one example of a knackered handful of female contraceptive technologies that persist: implants, pills, patches, rings, caps, sponges, ...

Essure was a permanent contraceptive system, which worked by inserting flexible, metal coils into a woman's fallopian tubes. It was designed to cause scarring and block the tubes. The product was ...

A class action has been launched against the Essure device manufacturer Bayer, which says it will vigorously defend the safety of the implanted metal coil.

1 ENTRIES Madison Griffiths is the author of Sweet Nothings and Tissue . In a class action loss against Bayer for harms caused by its Essure contraceptive device, some saw familiar failures of ...