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600 Australian women flag interest in contraceptive pill class action against Bayer

FROM: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-08/6 ... er/5189750


Updated Wed 8 Jan 2014, 9:13am AEDT


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An Adelaide law firm says more than 600 Australian women have expressed interest in joining a potential class action against Bayer, the maker of the contraceptive pills Yasmin and Yaz.

The women claim to have suffered serious side effects from the pills, mostly to do with complications from blood clots.

A United States study of more than 800,000 women who took the pills found the risk of developing blood clots is up to three times higher than for other contraceptives.

Kelly Lee says she was 28 and fit when she had a stroke, not long after taking Yasmin.

She says she wants action taken against Bayer and the pill should be taken off the market.

"I really want them to fight for it for the other women," she said.

"I want that pill to be off the market so the thing that happened to me doesn't happen to anybody else.

"So I just want the lawsuit to go ahead so, you know, they stop making this pill."

Lawyer Tim White from Tindall Gask Bentley says he is confident action will go ahead against Bayer, who he claims has not adequately disclosed the health risks of taking the product.

"The number of women that have come forward throughout Australia with very serious complications is alarming," he said.

"The majority of the women that we've had dealings with have been very significantly affected as a result of taking either of these two drugs.

"And by that what I mean is that these women are being hospitalised."

Tindall Gask Bentley says settlements have been successful in other countries.

Topics: law-crime-and-justice, contraception, reproduction-and-contraception, health, australia, sa, adelaide-5000

First posted Wed 8 Jan 2014, 8:21am AEDT


PornRevolution,net Eds note: This Yaz Birth Control Pill first came to the attention of ABC news back in 2011. But the drug companys that virtually rule the world pushed on, now I bet they're licking there wounds... They've already had to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation. And below is the ABC's first article about this issue. So good to see a news service doing its job and looking after the best interests of Planet and People instead of the crazy money hungry multi-nationals.

Regulator issues warning over contraceptive pill

FROM: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-11/r ... ll/2790678

Posted Mon 11 Jul 2011, 9:08pm AEST
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Photo: About 180,000 Australian women take Yasmin and its lower dose counterpart Yas.

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The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has issued a warning about the latest generation of oral contraceptive pill.

The British Medical Journal recently published two reports warning that women on the fourth generation pill are more likely to develop life-threatening blood clots.

The studies looked at pills containing drospirenone, marketed in Australia as Yasmin and Yaz.

They suggest women taking these pills are two to three times more likely to suffer a blood clot than women taking other oral contraceptives.

The TGA says all contraceptives pose a small risk and while it has no plans to remove or restrict the sale of Yasmin, it will monitor all new information.

A report on the ABC TV's 7:30 last month examined a possible link between Yasmin and the death of a Melbourne woman from a suspected blood clot, as well as a clot found in the leg of a Brisbane woman.

But researchers say while the risk is greater, it is still very small. One study of 100,000 British women taking Yasmin found 23 had developed a blood clot.

The Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Bayer, the pharmaceutical giant that manufactures the drugs, say that research is flawed.

Bayer told 7:30 that Yaz and Yasmin have the same risk as other oral contraceptives.

Dr Louise Farrell from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said women should be alert to the signs of blood clotting, but the latest research was unconvincing.

Of the more than a million women on the pill in Australia, about 180,000 take Yasmin and its lower dose counterpart Yas, which are not on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

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