Posts tagged yaz

• Defective Birth Control Pills Cause Blood Clots

  Orman Kimbrough, Jr. | December 15, 2011 9:17 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Studies have determined that Yasmin and Yaz, used for a form of birth control, are a defective product and are linked to risk of blood clots. Patients who are on the drug are 3 times more likely...

• It's Time to Drop Drospirenone and All That Yaz

  Cal Warriner | November 01, 2011 2:19 PM | 2 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  After thousands of lawsuits were filed for people suffering life threatening blood clots caused by Yaz, Yasmin, BeYaz and Ocella, the FDA has been closely monitoring birth control containing...

• One for the Good Guys -- Bausch v Stryker

  Cal Warriner | November 01, 2011 11:35 AM | 1 CommentWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  For consumers of medical devices, yesterday’s United States Supreme Court decision not to hear a discretionary appeal from the Seventh Circuit is a big win. What ordinary consumers of drugs...

• FDA Warns About Drospirenone Birth Control Caused Blood Clots

  Council Wooten | October 06, 2011 9:34 AM | 0 CommentsOrlando, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Food and Drug Administration said that it remains concerned that certain types of birth control pills increase the risk of blood clots. The FDA has previously cited two recent studies that have...

• Finally! FDA to Review Safety Concerns of Yaz, Yasmin, Ocell and Other Contraceptives

  Brenda Fulmer | October 05, 2011 9:43 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  More than two years after the British Medical Journal published its first articles urging patients not to take certain birth control products; the Food & Drug Administration has decided to...

• Initial Studies: FDA Confirms Increased Risk of Clots with Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella

  Brenda Fulmer | October 03, 2011 11:03 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In May, we reported recent medical studies found that the latest generation of birth control pills, Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella (drospirenone-containing drugs), placed women at a higher risk of blood...

• FDA Update on Drospirenone Containing Birth Control Pills

  Cal Warriner | September 27, 2011 10:58 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  On September 26, 2011 the FDA issued its latest update regarding its ongoing investigation into whether drospirenone containing oral birth control pills are more dangerous than other forms of oral...

• Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella -- Current Litigation

  Brenda Fulmer | August 24, 2011 10:19 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There are now more than 7,500 individual lawsuits pending in state and federal courts involving girls and young women who suffered blood clots (leading to deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism,...

• Bayer's Beyaz -- Cause for Shame, Not Celebration

  Brenda Fulmer | September 27, 2010 11:55 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  This week begins as one of contrasts for me. Bayer is heralding the FDA’s approval of its latest reformulation of Yaz. The FDA has issued its own press release as well, presumably because...

• Has the FDA Fallen Ill?

  Brenda Fulmer | January 12, 2010 11:53 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA: our government-run watchdog out to protect us from harmful drugs and medical devices. But is that still the case? After great public scrutiny and numerous discoveries of one shocking drug...