Blog Posts in October, 2009
Posted on Oct 22, 2009 By KBLAdmin
Here's another sad story about woman from the Bay Area that suffered from a stroke and, subsequently, was in a comma and then hospitalized for six months, after only taking Yaz for a month for ...
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Posted on Oct 19, 2009 By KBLAdmin
From BNET : Bayer faces more than 125 lawsuits over its Yaz contraceptive and new cases are being filed around the country at a rate of up to up to six a day, according to Courthouse News Service . ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2009 By KBLAdmin
Below is the beginning of a letter, written in late-2008, to the President & Chief Executive Officer of Bayer, Reinhard Franzen, from the FDA. It warns Bayer that its TV ads for Yaz are misleading ...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2009 By KBLAdmin
From The New York Times : The oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer HealthCare , largely as a result of marketing that presents them as much more than ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2009 By KBLAdmin
WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators have warned drugmaker Bayer over quality control issues at a plant that makes the key ingredient in Yaz and other popular birth control drugs . In a warning ...
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