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Bayer Healthcare To Launch New Birth Control Pill Amid Controversy Over Yaz Oral Contraceptive

jgersten — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:22:32 +0000

NPR reported[link] this week that Bayer is planning to release its latest birth control pill called Natazia. The new drug contains a form of estrogen never before used as an oral contraceptive. In addition to the drug itself, the dosing schedule is also new: women will take four combinations and doses of hormones each month instead of one pill a day.

Bayer is the leading manufacturer of birth control pills, and their development of a new contraceptive pill comes at a time when Bayer is still dealing with the fall out from alleged serious side effects from its previous birth control drug Yaz.

Across the U.S., almost 3,000 women are suing Bayer alleging serious injuries related to the use of the drug. Side effects may include blood clots, deep vein thrombosis, strokes, heart attacks, gall bladder damage, and kidney problems. In certain cases, women have died suddenly. Learn more about dangerous Yaz side effects and Yaz lawsuits.

Yaz side effects and Yaz lawsuits

Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. to Update Yaz & Yasmin Warning Label

jgersten — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:41:31 +0000

According to press reports, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals has agreed to change its warning labels on their oral contraceptive drugs Yaz and Yasmin to alert users to the risks of developing blood clots while using Yaz and Yasmin. The newly updated labels will now state that the risk of using these two birth control products is “comparable” to that of other oral contraceptives. However, as alleged in complaints against Bayer by injured patients and the families of loved ones, who have died, Yaz and Yasmin are dangerous drugs, posing a greater risk of blood clots and serious injuries than earlier generations of birth control pills that are available for use in the U.S. and worldwide.

The decision to update the labels came after two studies that were commissioned by Bayer showed that the risk of Yaz and Yasmin was comparable to that of other oral contraceptives on the market, according to press reports.

Click here to learn more about the risks associated with Yaz and Yasmin.

Mother Charges Yaz Birth Control Pill Killed Her College Student Daughter

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:49:18 +0000

In January 2010, Leah Mayfield was rushed to the hospital after passing out in the shower. Less than an hour later she was dead. The official cause of death was a pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in the lungs). At the emergency room, a doctor informed Traci Mayfield that Yaz, a prescription birth control pill Leah had been taking, could have caused the blood clot.

In a report by the CBS affiliate TV station in Nashville, Tennessee, Traci Mayfield spoke of her love for her 20-year old daughter Leah, “We were more than mother/daughter, we were best friends. She blossomed into a beautiful young lady [in college].”

Leah and Traci Mayfield

Traci Mayfield has filed a lawsuit against Bayer, the manufacturer of Yaz, for death of her daughter, and is warning others of the dangers of Yaz. (Ms. Mayfield is represented by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP). Watch the news report.

If you or a loved one have been injured or died as a result of taking Yaz or Yasmin, please visit Lieff Cabraser’s Yaz/Yasmin legal information page or call us toll-free at 1-800-541-7358. Our personal injury attorneys and legal nurse consultants will promptly review your case for no charge or obligation on your part.

Breast Cancer and Link to Hormone-Replacement Therapy Drugs: Trial Updates

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:01:45 +0000

A Philadelphia jury returned a $28 million punitive damages verdict Monday against two drugmakers over the drugmakers’ hormone-replacement therapy drugs that the jury found caused a plaintiff’s breast cancer. And a $75 million punitive damages verdict from the end of October in another hormone-replacement therapy, or HRT, mass tort case was unsealed by court order after the other jury verdict was rendered around 2 p.m. Monday.

On Friday, the jury in Kendall v. Wyeth awarded more than $6 million in compensatory damages to plaintiffs Donna Kendall and John Kendall Jr., their attorneys said. In the punitive damages part of the case decided Monday, the jury awarded $16 million against Wyeth, which is now owned by Pfizer, and $12 million against Pharmacia & Upjohn, which also is now owned by Pfizer. The total verdict adds up to more than $34 million.

Read the full article on law.com.