Bayer’s second quarter earnings are down, largely because of costs associated with settling lawsuits from consumers who claim the pharmaceutical giant’s Yasmin line of birth control pills caused health problems, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports.
Despite the lagging profits, however, the company said global sales for the quarter jumped by 10 percent to a record $12.5 billion on strong performances by all three of the company’s business segments. Crop sciences revenues ...
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According to a story in the U.K. newspaper Daily Express, a study found that people who snore are three times more likely to suffer a potentially fatal blood clot.
The study, led by a team of researchers in Taiwan, found that patients diagnosed with the snoring-related condition sleep apnea were three times as likely to develop a deep vein thrombosis – or a blood clot in one of the deeper veins, ...
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According to a Bloomberg report, Bayer has said that settlements of U.S. lawsuits over its Yasmin line of birth control pills have reached more than $402 million.
The German pharmaceutical giant has resolved almost 1,900 cases involving allegations that its contraceptives caused potentially deadly blood clots, the company said this week in a stockholders’ newsletter. Bayer said it has paid $402.6 million in settlements of one category of clot cases, for ...
continue reading...Pharmaceutical giant Bayer is facing legal action from thousands of plaintiffs who claim they or their loved ones have been injured by the Yasmin line of oral contraceptives.
The complaints about the Yasmin line of contraceptives cite a number of studies indicating that birth control pills with the compound drospirenone carry up to three times the risk of potentially fatal blood clots ...
continue reading...Blood clots in the deep leg veins – a condition called deep vein thrombosis — can be deadly if the clots break off and travel to the heart, lungs or brain. But according to a health column in the Herald Times Reporter in Wisconsin, the blood clots can cause lasting health problems even if they remain in the legs.
Dr. Terry L. Gueldner, MD, FACS, RPhS, of the Wisconsin Vein Center ...
continue reading...A report in the Sydney Morning Herald says scientists in Australia are developing a miniature robot called the Neuroglide that would be able to navigate through the arteries of the human brain and remove life-threatening blood clots in stroke victims.
The report quotes neurointerventionist Bernard Yan as saying that currently about 15 percent of stroke victims die because the blood clot in their brain can’t be accessed down a winding path ...
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