An ABC Nightline story recounts the experience of pediatric nurse, who took the medication Yaz because she wanted to look nice on her wedding day, and ended up going blind after a blood clot sent her into a coma.
The report says the woman, from Wisconsin, started taking the blockbuster birth control pill in 2007 because of an advertising blitz by manufacturer Bayer, which made exaggerated claims that it would treat ...
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found no clear link between HIV and use of contraceptives such as the birth control pill and Depo-Provera shots.
According to a Reuters report, recent studies have suggested that the use of hormonal contraceptives could increase the risk of women contracting HIV. But after reviewing the studies, CDC issued a statement to the effect that “the evidence does not suggest” a link ...
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Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has issued an advisory to hospitals, stating that more lives could be saved if medical professionals diagnosed and treated blood clots in the legs and lungs more quickly.
According to a BBC report, NICE is urging hospitals in England and Wales to test for blood clots within 24 hours of identifying symptoms. The report says blood clots in the legs or lungs affected ...
continue reading...The Coalition to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis provides some advice on preventing DVT, which is the formation of a potentially deadly blood clot in one of the deep veins.
Much of the information deals with recognizing the signs, symptoms and risk factors for developing blood clots. They include long periods of physical inactivity, smoking, recent surgery and pregnancy.
Use of birth control pills can also be a risk factor for developing blood ...
continue reading...The executive board of the National Aphasia Association has drawn up a Bill of Rights designed to minimize the isolation and frustration commonly experienced by people with the condition.
Aphasia impairs a patient’s ability to speak, read, write or understand others, but does not affect intelligence. According to the National Aphasia Association, it affects anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of stroke survivors and stroke is the most common cause.
Strokes are ...
continue reading...In an article on problems with the Yaz line of contraceptives for BNET online magazine, Jim Edwards writes that Yaz manufacturer Bayer seems to have a troubling perspective on the very concept of risk.
As Edwards writes, Yaz is the focus of concerns that it causes more blood clots in users than older safer pills.
A number of studies show that pills containing the ...
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