A report on ABC 15 out of Arizona deals with the thousands of women who have suffered complications as a result of using the Mirena intrauterine device.
According to the report, 59,229 users filed complaints with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about the devices since 2004. The most common is “expulsion,” in which the device came out on its own. But there were also more than 1,300 reports from 2008 ...
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Reuters reports on a recently approved intrauterine device from Bayer, which is the first new device of its type that the FDA has approved in 12 years.
According to the report, the new IUD is called Skyla. It’s a T-shaped polyethylene device that prevents pregnancy by releasing low doses of the hormone progestin.
Bayer manufactures another IUD available on the U.S. market called Mirena. But where Mirena is designed for use by ...
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In a piece for Australian paper The Border Mail, writer Bianca Wordley describes the problems she experienced as a result of using Bayer’s Mirena intrauterine device.
While Wordley acknowledges that not every woman who gets Mirena implanted has problems with it, in her case it was “a dreadful mistake.”
In the United States, a number of women have filed lawsuits claiming the company overstated the device’s benefits in its advertising while trying ...
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A federal judge overseeing more than 50 consolidated lawsuits about the Mirena intrauterine device recommends that the plaintiff’s lawyers include some women in the proposed leadership committee, according to a Reuters report.
U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel made that recommendation during the multidistrict litigation’s first status conference in White Plains, New York, when four male lawyers asked to be appointed to the litigation’s executive committee. Given the nature of the ...
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According to a story in the National Law Journal, about 40 lawsuits filed over Bayer’s Mirena intrauterine device have been coordinated in multidistrict litigation, and will be heard by a New York federal judge. Attorneys for the plaintiffs said they expect complaints about Mirena IUDs to generate hundreds – perhaps thousands – more lawsuits in the near future.
The T-shaped flexible plastic devices prevent pregnancy by releasing hormones into the ...
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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a number of factors can put people at higher risk for a stroke.
While medical conditions can increase that risk, lifestyle factors play a role as well.
For example, use of birth control pills can increase the risk of blood clots that lead to stroke – as can pregnancy itself.
But a number of studies show that pills with the synthetic hormone drospirenone ...
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