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Costs keep women from using birth control devices

Devices such as IUDs are the most effective means of birth control, but few women use them because of the up-front costs, according to a story from the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday.

The story reports a wide range of costs for birth control among uninsured women, from $9 a month for generic pills to $90 a month for some newer brands. And getting a doctor to insert long-term devices such as IUDs can cost anywhere from $600 to $1,000.

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Bayer expects more lawsuits, according to report

Bayer has about 11,300 lawsuits pending from “persons alleged to have suffered personal injuries, some of them fatal” as a result of using the birth control pills Yasmin, Beyaz, and Yaz and their generic versions. And the company is expecting even more.

That’s from Bayer’s annual report, assessing the company’s status for 2011. The report provides a summation of the legal troubles the company has been dealing with over its oral contraceptives, which according to the lawsuits, cause an increased risk ...

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Report says Yaz, Yasmin big money-makers for Bayer

Shannon Pettypiece of Bloomberg Television provides some context for the recent national debates about birth control, pointing out that birth control constitutes “big business for big pharma.”

In a recent report, Ms. Pettypiece observed that Americans spent $5 billion last year for birth control. She said the German corporation Bayer gets about $1.5 billion a year from its drugs Yaz and Yasmin.

See the video here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/video/87718882/

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Bayer suing over controversial birth control

Bloomberg reports that a unit of Bayer is suing generic drug manufacturer Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. over allegations that Watson has violated a patent for Beyaz birth control pills.

A spokesman for New Jersey-based Watson said the company intends to contest Bayer’s claims.

Bayer has requested that a judge ban the sale of birth control pills based on the patent.

Beyaz and other birth control pills containing the compound drospirenone has served as the basis of read more.... --> continue reading...

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