Posted August 3, 2018
Bayer announced on Friday, July 20th, that due to weak sales of the permanent contraceptive implant Essure, the product will be discontinued. They also repeated the party line that Essure was safe and effective, ignoring the “thousands of injury reports from women and repeated safety restrictions by regulators”1 over the last couple of years. (They stopped selling the device in Europe last year.) Read more.