Posts Tagged 'Beyaz'

Study: Conflicts of interest no concern for many doctors

A recent study found that about 35 percent of physicians do not completely agree that they should tell patients about their financial relationships with drug and medical device companies, according to Medscape Today News.

The study, published in the February issue of Health Affairs, drew on a 2009 survey of almost 1900 physicians.

The article quotes medical ethicist Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD, of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, as saying: “We need to do some serious interventions to return to our ethical ...

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Tips for avoiding blood clots on long plane flights

When you’re traveling to get medical care, you certainly don’t want a blood clot to complicate the original medical problem.

New York City’s Hospital for Special Surgery attracts many patients who travel long distances for its specialty orthopedic operations. The hospital’s Website says that long airplane flights, with their extended periods of forced immobility, can be a risk factor in developing blood clots. The dryness of the recirculated air can also be a problem in that regard.

Dr. Anne Bass, chairperson of ...

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Should Beyaz/Yaz be recalled?

Following close on the heels of the December 8, 2011 U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel vote on Yaz/Yasmin/Beyaz, the FDA is planning a new panel to examine the question of whether all-metal hip implants, plagued by a high failure rate and other health concerns, should remain on the market.

The FDA panel on birth control has already voted that Beyaz, Yaz, and other contraceptives containing the compound drospirenone should remain on the market. But in the opinion of many ...

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Women taking risks with black market birth control

Missouri television station KSDK cites a new study by the American Journal of Public Health, which says that more Latinas are crossing the border into Mexico for birth control pills. The study also found that undocumented immigrants are buying birth control on the black market.

Birth control is cheaper and more readily accessible in Mexico, where it’s sold over the counter.

The report quotes Dr. Jorge Galdamez of the San Ysidro Health Center as saying those women are taking a huge health ...

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Journalist raises concerns about Beyaz

In an entry for re:Cycling, the blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, journalist Holly Grigg-Spall questions the health claims that Bayer makes for its birth control pill Beyaz, a variation on the corporation’s top-selling Yaz contraceptive.

Grigg-Spall points out that Beyaz is essentially Yaz with addition of a B vitamin, supposedly to alleviate the possibility of pregnancy complications and birth defects from the original Yaz pill.

But Beyaz still contains drospirenone – the synthetic hormone that thousands of lawsuits against ...

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Physician warns of side effects from Ocella

An article on Website Helium.com by physician Dr Pandula Siribaddana lists the side effects associated with birth control pill Ocella.

According to Siribaddana, Ocella is associated with some relatively inconsequential side effects such as weight gain and breast tenderness. But he writes that the pill can also cause blood clots. So women using it should be wary of the following symptoms associated with blood clots and seek immediate medical attention if they occur:

  • Loss or alteration of vision, hearing or speech.
  • A feeling ...
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