Topic: Bayer AG

A panel of experts that advises the US Food and Drug Administration has urged stronger labeling on birth control pills such as Bayer's Yaz that have a shown a higher risk of blot clots.Results of the 21-5 vote released late Thursday showed ...

FDA advisers: revise popular birth control labels

ADELPHI, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. health advisers recommended a revision of labels for the widely used new generation of birth control pills, based on data showing they may put women at a higher risk of dangerous blood clots.Although all common birth control ...

FDA advisers: revise popular birth control

ADELPHI, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. health advisers recommended a revision of labels for the widely used new generation of birth control pills, based on data showing they may put women at a higher risk of dangerous blood clots.Although all common birth control ...

FDA eyes stronger warning on popular birth control

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health officials are weighing stricter labels on the widely used new generation of birth control pills, based on data showing they may put women at a higher risk of dangerous blood clots.U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff reviewed studies ...

Bayer faces US lawsuit over contraceptive

The German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer faces a US lawsuit on behalf of a teenager who died from a blood clot allegedly linked to its YAZ contraceptive.Michelle Pfleger, an 18-year-old college student in North Carolina, died of cardiac arrest last September ...

New studies point to clot risk of Bayer's Yasmin

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - New evidence emerged on Thursday that women taking Bayer's best-selling contraceptive Yasmin may run a higher risk of dangerous blood clots than those using older birth-control pills.Two studies showed that users of pills containing drospirenone, one of the hormones ...

Doctors say blood-clot drug race too close to call

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A half dozen experimental stroke-prevention drugs, and one already on the market, are racing for their share of a market that could be worth $15 billion a year. But doctors say it is still too early to predict how ...

Bayer, J&J anti-clot drug shines in stroke trial

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A once-daily pill being developed by Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson was better at preventing stroke than standard treatment, with less risk of the most worrisome types of bleeding, researchers said on Monday.The fuller picture for Xarelto could ...
Some of the newest birth control pills -- Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella -- are the subject of over 1,000 lawsuits that claim the medications increase the risk of blood clots and stroke and cause other health problems in women who take them. ...

Aspirin for your heart

The website for Fasprin, aspirin that dissolves in your mouth, suggests that it works faster than other aspirin to limit damage during a heart attack. And although Bayer says that its Quick Release Crystals are not appropriate for cardiovascular use, it's easy ...
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