Posts tagged stroke

• 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...

• Another Lawsuit Filed Against the Maker of "Yaz" Birth Control

  Paul Kiesel | November 05, 2009 8:19 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From ChicagoNow: A woman is suing the maker of Yaz birth control after the contraceptive allegedly caused her to develop gall stones. Melissa Johnson is suing Bayer, the maker of the prescription...

• Another Yaz Birth Control Victim

  Paul Kiesel | November 24, 2009 5:58 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From Business Wire: NEW YORK -- Wendy R. Fleishman of the national plaintiffs’ law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP announced that Mae Walker today filed a personal injury...

• 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...

• Yaz: Riskier than Other Birth Control Pills?

  Paul Kiesel | October 22, 2009 5:53 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Here's another sad story about woman from the Bay Area that suffered from a stroke and, subsequently, was in a comma and then hospitalized for six months, after only taking Yaz for a month for...

• Bayer Follows Google's Lead

  Paul Kiesel | November 18, 2009 7:59 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Bayer's Yaz is trying out a paid search format similar to that proposed by Google for products carrying black-box warnings. The Yaz-branded sponsored link appears in a yellow-highlighted box...

• 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...

• More Bayer Birth Control Dangers

  Paul Kiesel | November 12, 2009 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  From Fox News: Within the past year both Christine Navarro and Robyn Dunn were rushed to the hospital with life threatening blood clots. At the time Christine was taking the Yaz birth control pill...

• Birth Control Pills Almost Double the Risk of Stroke

  Paul Kiesel | October 27, 2009 4:36 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From The Times of India: According to a review article in MedLink Neurology by three Loyola University Health System neurologists, women who take birth control pills and also smoke, have high blood...

• Bayer, Birth Control Products and Blood Clots: Every Young Woman's Nightmare

  Paul Kiesel | October 21, 2009 6:36 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From Reuters: Kent L. Klaudt of the national plaintiffs` law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP announced that Candice Atkinson today filed a personal injury lawsuit against Bayer...