{"id":81674,"date":"2017-08-05T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T09:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/eu-suspends-sale-of-contraceptive-implant\/"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T09:09:20","slug":"eu-suspends-sale-of-contraceptive-implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/eu-suspends-sale-of-contraceptive-implant\/","title":{"rendered":"EU suspends sale of contraceptive implant"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The sale of a contraceptive implant has been suspended for three months across the European Union after an Irish regulator said it was temporarily withholding renewal of the device&#8217;s commercial licence.\n                                <\/p>\n<p>The National Standards Authority of Ireland said it needed more information before renewing the licence for the Essure contraceptive device, its French counterpart told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the device &#8220;can no longer be sold in France or Europe during the temporary suspension period,&#8221; which runs to November, the French ANSM medical safety authority said. <\/p>\n<p>Essure&#8217;s manufacturers Bayer say the device is a &#8220;minimally invasive&#8221; permanent birth control procedure. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to reassure the women who use Essure as their form of contraception and their healthcare professionals<\/a> that the safety and efficacy of Essure continues to be supported by more than a decade of science and real world clinical experience,&#8221; the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>ANSM urged women to not use the Essure implant in the meantime &#8220;as a precaution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s public health authority suspended the sale of the device in February pending further testing but lifted the ban last month.\n                                                                <\/p>\n<p class=\"news-relevant\">\n                                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"toolsicon ic-rel\" src=\"https:\/\/b98584f181.site.internapcdn.net\/tmpl\/v5\/img\/1x1.gif\" width=\"14\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n                                        <b>Explore further:<\/b><br \/>\n                                        Women sue healthcare giant Bayer over contraceptive implants<\/a>\n                                    <\/p>\n<footer class=\"post-floor clearfix\">\n                                    <!-- rating --><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"toolsicon icon-fbck\" src=\"https:\/\/b98584f181.site.internapcdn.net\/tmpl\/v5\/img\/1x1.gif\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" alt=\"feedback\" \/><br \/>\n                                                feedback to editors<br \/>\n                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<section class=\"copyright\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t                                                \u00a9 2017 AFP<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sale of a contraceptive implant has been suspended for three months across the European Union after an Irish regulator said it was temporarily withholding renewal of the device&#8217;s commercial licence. The National Standards Authority of Ireland said it needed more information before renewing the licence for the Essure contraceptive device, its French counterpart told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}