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 ...
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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 ...
continue reading...An article on the Website for media personality and former talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey includes information about different forms of birth control such as the diaphragm, the sponge and the vaginal ring, listing the advantages and disadvantages of each.
One of the listings is for “the pill,” which the site says is the most popular form of birth control in America, according to a survey by the U.S. Centers for ...
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In a piece for the Huffington Post, sports physical therapist Abby Sims writes that Dillon Gee of the New York Mets was fortunate that a timely examination revealed the presence of a blood clot in his pitching shoulder.
Gee, a 26-year-old left-hander, had surgery this week to break up the clot. Doctors diagnosed the problem after he complained of numbness in his fingers.
Sims writes that blood clots can be very dangerous ...
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