- Paul Kiesel | October 27, 2009 4:36 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsFrom The Times of India:
According to a review article in MedLink Neurology by three Loyola University Health System neurologists, women who take birth control pills and also smoke, have high blood...
- Paul Kiesel | October 22, 2009 5:53 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsHere's another sad story about woman from the Bay Area that suffered from a stroke and, subsequently, was in a comma and then hospitalized for six months, after only taking Yaz for a month for...
- Paul Kiesel | October 21, 2009 6:36 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsFrom Reuters:
Kent L. Klaudt of the national plaintiffs` law firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann &
Bernstein, LLP announced that Candice Atkinson today filed a personal injury
lawsuit against Bayer...
- Paul Kiesel | October 19, 2009 7:07 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsFrom BNET:
Bayer faces more than 125 lawsuits over its Yaz contraceptive and new cases are being filed around the country at a rate of up to up to six a day, according to Courthouse News...
- Paul Kiesel | October 16, 2009 7:15 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsFrom The Texas Record:
A pregnant woman claiming her birth control pills are responsible for her blood clot and the death of her unborn baby has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the drug's...
- Paul Kiesel | October 15, 2009 7:27 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsThis is unfortunately becoming a trend amongst young women who use these type of products from Bayer.
From Bloomberg:
Sept. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Bayer AG, Germany’s largest drugmaker, said its...
- Paul Kiesel | October 14, 2009 8:17 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsBelow is the beginning of a letter, written in late-2008, to the President & Chief Executive Officer of Bayer, Reinhard Franzen, from the FDA. It warns Bayer that its TV ads for Yaz are...
- Paul Kiesel | October 14, 2009 4:33 PM |
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Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)From the Los Angeles Times:
After years of legal wrangling, Metrolink has settled most of the outstanding lawsuits arising from the 2005 Glendale crash that killed 11 people and injured about 180,...
- Paul Kiesel | October 08, 2009 7:17 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsFrom The New York Times:
The oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer HealthCare, largely as a result of marketing that presents them as much more than...
- Paul Kiesel | October 07, 2009 5:30 PM |
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FDA & Prescription DrugsWASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators have warned drugmaker Bayer over quality control issues at a plant that makes the key ingredient in Yaz and other popular birth control drugs.
In a warning...