The FDA recently released an update to its tracking and post-market surveillance of Essure patients and the measures taken by Bayer since the corporation pulled the device from US shelves last year. The agency, according to a statement by the director of its Center for Devices and Radiological Health, “is committed to continuing to monitor the postmarket safety of the device for women who have the ...
continue reading...FDA Issues Follow-up Statement for Essure Patients
When more than 20,000 people have lined up to sue you over the irreparable harm allegedly caused by one of your products, every victory might as well be celebrated, no matter how small. This would explain the elation coming out of Bayer as 12 Essure lawsuits were dismissed by a Pennsylvania federal judge as time-barred; meaning that they had exceeded the statute of limitations and ...
continue reading...Essure will no longer be marketed in the United States in the near future – or anywhere else in the world for that matter – but that doesn’t mean that the lawsuits surrounding the device are going anywhere. And, in at least one situation, a federal court has ruled that, at least for now, it’s not a federal issue.
Bayer had initially requested the move to the federal bench under ...
continue reading...After pulling Essure off shelves around the world and leaving the US as the only country on the planet left selling its sterilization device for women, Bayer has responded to an increase in attention and threats from the FDA by finally agreeing to pull it from US shelves as well.
Bloomberg is reporting that the device’s manufacturer received threats of civil and criminal liabilities from the FDA ...
continue reading...The sale and implantation of Essure in the United States is facing a new set of federally-mandated restrictions, and the government has left the enforcement of that mandate to the company that manufactures the device being restricted.
In response to a decline in demand for its female sterilization solution that quite literally spans the globe, Bayer ceased sales of Essure in every market on the planet except the United States ...
continue reading...The device caused such an outrage in countries around the world that Bayer removed it from the market. However, despite thousands of reports of injury and tens of thousands of women lobbying to have it pulled from US shelves, Essure is still available in the United States.
Injuries continue to mount as a result. In the meantime, a plaintiff in a previous Essure injury case; Jessica Williams ...
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