Posts tagged yaz

• Friday Legal & Safety News Roundup: June 1, 2012

  Brett Emison | June 01, 2012 11:50 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Legal, safety, and other news from around the Internet that caught my attention this week: Big Law, Please Meet SmallLaw [Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law Blog and Above...

• 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 -...

• Top 10 Posts of 2011

  Brett Emison | December 31, 2011 11:08 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Happy New Year to all! To celebrate the turning of the calendar, here is a recap of the 10 most popular posts from this year: 10. Toyota Recall: A Time Line Of Toyota's Checkered Safety...

• Friday Legal & Safety News Roundup: December 9, 2011

  Brett Emison | December 09, 2011 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Happy Friday! Legal and safety news that caught my interest this week: The Big Tort Law / Physician Location Disconnect [The Pop Tort] iPhone and iPod battery cases recalled due...

• 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...