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Yaz hides health risks | Ohio Yaz lawsuit attorneys

Our Yaz birth control lawsuit attorneys were interested to see a recent article in BusinessWeek highlighted a Canadian lawsuit brought against Bayer, the making of Yaz birth control, accusing the company of hiding the health risks associated with taking the drug.

Read the first part of the article here:

Bayer AG, Germany's largest drugmaker, was accused in a lawsuit of ignoring health risks of the contraceptive Yaz and advertising the drug as safe to boost sales.

The Yasmin family of birth-control pills, known as Yaz and Yasmin, carries a four times increased risk of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism compared with other contraceptives, according to the suit, filed today in St. Catharines, Ontario, by two women. They seek class-action, or group, status to represent all women who used the drugs.

Yaz and Yasmin were Bayer's top-selling drugs in 2008, bringing in about $1.8 billion, a 17 percent increase from 2007. More than 2 million prescriptions were written for the drugs in Canada last year, indicating hundreds of thousands of women were using them, said Matthew Baer, the plaintiffs' lawyer.

"It's a failure-to-warn case," Baer said. "People need to be aware that if they choose to use the drugs they have a four times greater risk" of health problems.

Bayer stands behind the safety of Yaz and Yasmin, the company said in an e-mailed statement.

"Venous thrombosis is an unfortunate and rare side effect for women who take low-dose oral contraceptives," the company said. Those risks have been publicized in studies sponsored by Bayer and are reflected in prescribing information of all combination oral contraceptive products, the company said.

Request your free copy of the Yaz Birth Control Special Report by calling 800.637.8170 if you have suffered serious health problems while taking Yaz birth control.


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