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Scandal at the FDA: board members with drug maker ties voted to approve drug that’s killing women

  By ironman45 | August 26, 2012 - 5:10 pm | crooked health care, pregnancy/fertility, Women's Health
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by Tony Isaacs

An investigation by the Washington Monthly and the British Medical Journal determined that at least four members of an FDA advisory board which voted to approve a drug used in the birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin had either done work for the drugs’ manufacturer or received research funds from the manufacturer. Though the four committee members disclosed their ties to the FDA, the FDA decided that the ties did not matter and did not make the disclosures public. Tragically, the drugs the committee endorsed have been killing the women who take them. (more…)

FDA scandal: board members with drug maker ties voted to approve drug that’s killing women

  By ironman45 | March 20, 2012 - 2:23 am | crooked health care, Women's Health
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An investigation by the Washington Monthly and the British Medical Journal has found that at least four members of an advisory board which voted to approve a drug used in birth control pills had either done work for the drugs’ manufacturer or received research funds from the manufacturer. Though the four committee members disclosed their ties to the FDA, the FDA decided that the ties did not matter and did not make the disclosures public. Tragically, the drugs the committee endorsed have been killing the women who take them. (more…)

More Evidence Shows Newer Forms of ‘Pill’ Raise Clot Risk, FDA Says

  By ironman45 | November 19, 2011 - 8:30 pm | pregnancy/fertility, Women's Health
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Agency said it plans public hearing in December on safety of brands like Yaz, Yasmin

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently said it “remains concerned” that a newer generation of birth control pills may raise the odds for serious blood clots more than older forms of the Pill. (more…)

Pharmaceutical Hormones for Women

  By ironman45 | May 16, 2011 - 3:22 am | Women's Health
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In case you missed it mid-February, the popular contraceptive YAZ®/Yasmin® was briefly in the news. Stories surfaced that indicated that numerous severe and life-threatening side effects caused by YAZ® (a formula built from two synthetic hormones — ethinyl estradiol and drospirenone) were downplayed to the extreme in Bayer’s high-end-production-value ads for the product. Even the FDA mandated “cleaned-up” versions of the ads managed to make the side effects sound incidental.

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