Posts tagged ocella

• 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...

• Yaz Side Effects: FDA Wants More Studies And Warning About Blood Clots

  Brett Emison | December 07, 2011 10:26 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  An FDA advisory panel will meet on Thursday (Dec. 8, 2011) to review studies regarding risk of abnormal blood clots associated with birth control pills. The Agency published a report in...

• Yaz Generic Vestura: New Name, Same Dangerous Side Effects

  Brett Emison | December 06, 2011 11:20 AM | 1 CommentKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  For more than two years, I have been documenting the dangerous - sometimes deadly - side effects of Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella. Despite these concerns, the FDA recently approved a generic form of...

• FDA Study Finds Increased Risk of Blood Clots For Yaz, Other Drospirenone Contraceptives

  Brett Emison | November 08, 2011 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  For more than two years, I have been documenting the fact that Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella lead to serious and life-threatening side effects. Yaz, Yasmin, Ocella, and Beyaz contain the artificial...

• 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...

• Beyaz vs. Yaz: What’s the Difference?

  Brett Emison | July 15, 2011 10:55 AM | 1 CommentKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The short answer is, unfortunately, not much. I have blogged extensively about Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella and the risks they pose to the women who take them. The primary problem with this class of...

• Bayer's Beyaz Birth Control Pill: New Name, Same Side Effects

  Brett Emison | January 20, 2011 11:45 AM | 2 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Fifty years ago, in May 1960, the birth control pill was introduced to America. The pill gave women more control over their bodies, but not without certain health risks. One set of contraceptive...