Bloomberg News has reported that GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer of the antidepressant prescription drug Paxil, has entered into settlements with nearly 200 families for a total of $1 billion. The families charged in lawsuits that Paxil caused birth defects.

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 the oral contraceptives.

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 pulmonary embolism, a blood clot in the lungs. The emergency room physician informed Leah’s mother that that Yaz, a birth control pill prescribed to Leah, could have caused the blood clot.

Lieff Cabraser attorney Wendy Fleishman answers a series of frequently asked questions concerning the birth control drugs Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella and their side effects.

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

Personal injury lawsuit filed against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceutical Corporation for severe and lasting injuries caused by Bayer’s prescription drug Yaz

Plaintiff attorneys at Lieff Cabraser today filed a personal injury lawsuit against Bayer Corporation and Bayer Healthcare Pharmacuticals, Inc., for severe side effects from the prescription birth control drug Yaz, manufactured and marketed by Bayer.

A new study that adds to the growing concern that prenatal exposure to the chemical bisphenol A could harm children’s development.

According to the New York Times the Yaz line’s image has been clouded by concerns from some researchers, health advocates and plaintiffs’ lawyers. They say that the drugs put women at higher risk for blood clots, strokes and other health problems than some other birth control pills do.

Bloomberg News reports that Bayer AG’s Yaz contraceptive is part of an investigation by a Swiss health regulator into the death of a young woman who took the pill.