Posts tagged heart attack

• Did You Know... Safety Groups Question FDA Conflict Of Interest As Yaz Settlement Talks Continue?

  Brett Emison | February 06, 2012 11:15 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I've written before about settlement talks underway between thousands of women with Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella lawsuits and Bayer, the pharmaceutical giant who makes the Yaz birth control pill....

• Yaz Lawsuits Continue Toward Possible Settlement

  Brett Emison | January 11, 2012 11:35 AM | 1 CommentKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I wrote last week about a potential settlement of thousands of Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella lawsuits following Judge David Herndon's order requiring the parties to mediate and suspending...

• Yaz Lawsuits Move Toward Mediation Settlement Possibility

  Brett Emison | January 04, 2012 10:21 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  United States District Court Judge David R. Herndon moved parties in Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella lawsuits toward settlement through court-ordered mediation in an order entered New Year's Eve -...

• Yaz Side Effects: FDA Requires Increase Warning For Yaz Blood Clot Risks

  Brett Emison | December 09, 2011 10:46 AM | 1 CommentKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted 21-5 to require drospirenone-containing birth control pills - including Yaz, Yasmin, Ocella, Beyaz, Safyral, and Vestura - to warn about...

• FDA Study Shows Yaz Blood Clot Side Effect Danger

  Brett Emison | September 27, 2011 11:24 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I have covered the side effects and dangers of Yaz, Yasmin, Ocella and Beyaz for nearly two years. Yaz, Yasmin, Ocella, and Beyaz are popular birth control pills containing the artificial progestin...

• Yaz Side Effects: More Activity In Yaz MDL Lawsuits

  Brett Emison | March 04, 2010 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Because of several serious -- and sometimes deadly -- side effects, thousands of women across the United States have filed lawsuits against the makers of popular birth control pills Yaz, Yasmin and...

• FDA Wants Avandia Pulled Because Of Heart Attack Risks

  Brett Emison | February 22, 2010 1:59 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended that that GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes medicine, Avandia, be pulled from the market because of...

• Yaz Side Effects: Federal Court Enters Orders Concerning Plaintiffs Filing New Claims

  Brett Emison | February 19, 2010 2:37 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Thousands of women across the country have filed lawsuits because of serious -- and sometimes deadly side effects caused by popular birth control pills Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella. Because of the...

• Yaz Side Effects: Controversy For Top Selling Birth Control Pill

  Brett Emison | February 15, 2010 3:23 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Daily Aztec has reported that Yaz/Yasmin/Ocella is stirring controversy because of several serious - even deadly - side effects. Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella have each been linked to dangerous side...

• Yaz / Yasmin / Ocella Side Effects: Bayer Profit Grows In Spite of Deadly Side Effects

  Brett Emison | December 07, 2009 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Industry site, bnet.com has reported that Bayer's profit from Yaz and Yasmin continues to grow in spite of serious -- even deadly -- side effects including heart attack, stroke, pulmonary embolism,...