ORLANDO, Fla. – Nikki Morris has three very busy little girls at home in Haines City. Her husband works full-time and she stays home and home-schools the oldest while looking after the little ones.

The existing Essure procedure does not immediately provide permanent birth control. It instead requires the patient to wait for a period of 90 days, during which time the body grows over the inserted ...

Essure began as an exciting new contraceptive option for women, but when adverse event reports began piling up, it became a focus of controversy and litigation. It has now been removed from the market ...

New surveillance data on women implanted with the ESSURE female sterilization device -- removed from the market in December 2018 -- confirm that substantial numbers suffer abnormal uterine bleeding ...

Angie Derry knew that her Essure implants were designed to remain inside her body forever. But two years after a doctor inserted the tiny coils into her fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy, the ...

When Amanda Dykeman was certain she was done with having children, she had two options for permanent birth control: surgical sterilization, which typically involves general anesthesia and a ...

There’s a lot that goes into choosing the right form of birth control. When I first talked to my OB-GYN about contraception, pills were the primary topic of conversation, but there are many different ...

Pardee OB/GYN Associates is offering women the Essure procedure for permanent birth control. Essure is different than the traditional method of a surgical tubal ligation because there is no cutting or ...

It’s the end of an era for Amanda Dykeman, one of the many women who has campaigned against the permanent contraceptive device Essure. Bayer, the device’s manufacturer, announced earlier this week ...