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• 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...

• Legal & Safety News Round Up: June 21, 2011

  Brett Emison | June 21, 2011 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Legal and safety related news from around the internet: More younger people are suffering strokes [Irene Maher at St. Petersburg Times via NBC Action News in KC] [Related: Popular birth control...

• 50th Anniversary of Birth Control Pill Puts Focus On Heath Risks

  Brett Emison | May 07, 2010 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  This Sunday -- coincidentally, Mother's Day -- is the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the birth control pill. USA Today featured a report discussing the pill and its effects on women's...

• 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...

• 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...