Posts tagged birth control

• FDA to Bayer: Quit Overstating the Efficacy of Yaz and Misleading Consumers

  Paul Kiesel | October 14, 2009 8:17 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Below is the beginning of a letter, written in late-2008, to the President & Chief Executive Officer of Bayer, Reinhard Franzen, from the FDA. It warns Bayer that its TV ads for Yaz are...

• NYT: Bayer Misleading Consumers over Risks Associated with Popular Contraceptives

  Paul Kiesel | October 08, 2009 7:17 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From The New York Times: The oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer HealthCare, largely as a result of marketing that presents them as much more than...

• FDA Warns Bayer Over Quality Control Issues, Drug Ingredients

  Paul Kiesel | October 07, 2009 5:30 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators have warned drugmaker Bayer over quality control issues at a plant that makes the key ingredient in Yaz and other popular birth control drugs. In a warning...

• Will the FDA Recall Birth Control Products Yasmin & Ocella?

  Paul Kiesel | August 25, 2009 6:29 PM | 2 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From The Record: After a birth control pill spent months in the spotlight during commercials aimed at correcting misrepresentations about it, the pill is now at the center of a St. Clair County...

• Beware of Generic Birth Control Pill Ocella

  Paul Kiesel | August 17, 2009 6:42 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A 22-year-old woman who was taking Ocella, a generic version of the birth control pill Yasmin, recently suffered a stroke due to taking the drug. More information on this developing case will be...