Posts tagged side effects

• 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...

• Darvon, Darvocet Recalls Lead to Voluntary Withdrawals of Generic Versions

  Brett Emison | November 24, 2010 3:31 PM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Cornerstone Therapeutics announced this week that it would voluntarily withdraw Balacet® 325 and additional propoxyphene medications from the marketplace. The Cornerstone Therapeutics recall...

• Did You Know... Pain Killers Darvon and Darvocet Have Been Pulled From The Market?

  Brett Emison | November 22, 2010 11:30 AM | 9 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The FDA announced on Friday that drug maker Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has agreed to remove popular pain killers Darvon and Darvocet from the US market due to serious heart problems including...