Bayer is paying $142 million to settle 651 lawsuits over claims that its birth control pills cause blood clots, according to a newsletter published by the company. Initial reports announced settlements of about $110 million.
The latest figure was included in the Bayer Stockholders’ Newsletter for the first quarter. According to the newsletter, the company paid an average of about $218,000 a case.
The lawsuits dealt with the company’s pills containing the ...
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A study by the University of Michigan Health System found that patients receiving outpatient surgery, or same-day surgery that doesn’t require an overnight hospital stay, are at risk for blood clots. But unlike their counterparts who are hospitalized, the same-day surgery patients sometimes don’t get adequate warnings about the blood clot risks.
The study found that 1-in-84 of the highest-risk patients suffers a dangerous blood clot after surgery.
According to a University ...
continue reading...Good Day Chicago recently aired a news segment on the blood clot risks that come from taking birth control pills.
The piece included an interview with FOX Medical Team’s Dr. Joette Giovinco, who described blood clots as a relatively rare but dangerous complication from oral contraceptives. She said a big hazard from blood clots is that they’ll break off and travel to the lungs.
“That’s when it can become deadly,” Giovinco said.
Giovinco ...
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A CNN report says that depression is a risk factor for stroke, although a relatively minor one.
The report cites research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which suggests that as many as 4 percent of the estimated 795,000 strokes that occur in the United States each year can be attributed to depression.
Lead researcher An Pan, Ph.D., said the depression might add to stroke risk because people with ...
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In a recent entry for “re:Cycling,” the blog of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, journalist Holly Grigg-Spall questions whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration went far enough in its new labeling requirements for the Yasmin line of birth control pills.
Grigg-Spall points out that the new labels mention the results of “conflicting” studies, most of which concluded that the pills in question cause a significant increase ...
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According to a study from New Zealand, workers who spend long periods of time immobile at their desks could be putting themselves at risk for potentially fatal blood clots.
A BBC report says researchers found that a third of patients hospitalized with deep vein thrombosis were office workers who spent extended periods of time at a computer.
The report says the condition is commonly called “economy class syndrome,” because passengers sitting in ...
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