Center for Responsive Politics, October 2, 2015. Soaring drug prices already had customers unhappy. The pharmaceutical industry hardly needed a new poster boy to add volume and passion to the complaints.
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Investigation: Advisory Panel Suggests Limited Use of Popular Contraceptive Essure
WCBD NEWS 2, September 29, 2015. An advisory panel is now recommending limited use of the popular birth control Essure until more is known about its safety. The advisory panel suggests women with an allergy to metal, an autoimmune disease or history of pelvic inflammatory disease stay away from Essure right now.
Read More »The ‘Safe’ Birth Control That Wasn’t
The Daily Beast, September 24, 2014. After participating in clinical trials for Essure, a contraceptive implant, several women complained of severe pain and bleeding—but they say their trial records were altered.
Read More »FDA Panel Weighs Complaints on Essure Contraceptive Implant
The New York Times, September 24, 2015. A panel of experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration excoriated the manufacturer of a contraceptive device for not collecting data that they say could have helped predict risks for women. The device has received thousands of complaints from women who say they were harmed by it.
Read More »Medical Panel Calls for Further Study of Bayer Sterility Device
The Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2015. Thirteen years after the Food and Drug Administration approved a women’s sterility device called Essure, a panel of outside medical advisers Thursday called on the agency and device-maker Bayer AG to further study why so many women are suffering severe pain from the implant.
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