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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 13, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conceptus Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTS), developer of the Essure (R) procedure, the most effective non-surgical permanent birth control method available, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration just announced that they will be holding a public meeting of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Devices Panel on September 24 th in order to discuss “the safety and ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Conceptus, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTS), developer of the Essure ® procedure, the most effective permanent birth control method available, today introduced ...

A breakthrough contraceptive implant made its way on the market more than 10 years ago. Thirteen years later, thousands of women want Essure to go, the New York Times reported. Essure, manufactured by ...

Dr. Charles Miller, of Chicago, Ill., holds a coil device that is implanted in a woman’s fallopian tubes to form scar tissue which eventually blocks fertilization. Mct file photo Carol Caruso, 37, of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four years ago, some of the women told us the pain was so serious they had hysterectomies to remove the flexible coils inserted into their fallopian tubes. Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- No surgery, a faster recovery; thousands of women thought Essure was the perfect solution to a permanent birth control. But more and more women say the implant was a big mistake ...

Bayer will discontinue the marketing and sales of the sterilization device Essure in all countries outside of the United States, the company announced on Monday. While a number of reports have linked ...