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Number of Yaz and Yasmin Lawsuits Growing

By Eddie Farah

In 2007, Susan Galinis of San Francisco was the happy mother of 3-year-old twins, until doctors put her on the Yaz birth control pill. Four weeks and one day later she suffered a stroke.

Today it's obvious to see part of her skull has been removed. Doctors had to operate to accommodate the brain swelling following her stroke. Her IQ is 77. She has chronic pain and no short-term memory. Her twins have gone to counselling to deal with the differnt mother who returned from the hospital after six months.

Galinas has sued Bayer HealthCare. Her doctors told her it was Yaz that caused her stroke.

Anne Marie Eakins, 34, a history teacher and mother of two is also suing. She developed blood clots in both lungs in 2007 after starting Yaz. That resulted in partial loss of her right lung.

Yaz is the newest sister to drug, Yasmin, both made by Bayer. Ocella birth control is the generic version that is sold by Teva Pharmaceuticals.

All three oral contraceptives are among the most widely used and involve a combination of ethinyl estradiol with a new type of progestin, drospirenone that has been inked to health problems including strokes, heart attacks, deep vein thrombosis, gallbladder disease, pulmonary embolisms, and death.

Our firm is taking in a number of cases by women who have been hurt by these oral contraceptives which should be taken off the market. With six new cases being filed around the country every day and class action lawsuits being launched around the country, it won't be long before the drug is taken off the market.

Until then, women have to suffer.

The go-to drugs for women under the age of 35 generated sales of about $1.8 billion for Bayer last year. A multi-million dollar ad campaign promises the pill is a quality of life treatment that will improve acne and severe premenstrual depression. Bayer had to spend $20 million correcting those ads after the FDA said the company went well beyond what the drug approval.

Bayer stands behind its oral contraceptives and plans to defend itself vigorously against the rising number of lawsuits filed by lawyers and the women they represent, to hopefully soon bring the marketing of these dangerous oral contraceptives to an end.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Eddie Farah

Full post as published by Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer on November 13, 2009 (boomark / email).