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Various lawsuits have been filed in state and federal courts around the country on behalf of women who used Yasmin or Yaz birth control and suffered a stroke, heart attack or gall bladder damage.    Yaz and Yasmin both contain a combination of ethinyl estradiol, which is used in many oral contraceptives, and drospirenone, a new type of progestin that is unique to Yaz and Yasmin.  Soon, a panel of federal judges is scheduled to hear arguments about whether to consolidate and centralize all Yasmin and Yaz litigation pending in various federal courts throughout the United States.

Most recently, a new lawsuit was filed in St. Clair County, Illinois over the birth control pill Yaz by a woman who claims the drug caused a blood clot in her lung, also known as a pulmonary embolism.
According to a local newspaper, the St. Clair record, Kerry Sims filed the The Yaz blood clot lawsuit on August 18, 2009.  The defendant in the Sims Yaz lawsuit is Bayer, which is the maker of both Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills.  Ms. Sims also sued Walgreens pharmacy, where she purchased the medication. Ms. Sims’ Yaz lawsuit alleges that Bayer misrepresented the benefits and safety of the birth control pill.  Her Yaz lawsuit further claims that she would not have used Yaz birth control had she been fully informed of the health risks.

Sims alleges that she began taking the Yaz birth control pill when it was known as Yasmin. Bayer reformulated the pill and renamed it Yaz after acquiring Yasmin’s original manufacturer, Berlex, in 2006. As a side effect of Yaz, Sims alleges that she suffered a pulminary embolism, which is a blood clot in her lung and an infection of the area surrounding the blood clot.

For more information about a Yaz lawsuit or a Yasmin lawsuit, contact one of Bernstein Liebhard’s Yasmin lawyers or Yaz lawyers for a confidential and free case evaluation.

On August 14, 2009, the British Medical Journal Online published two studies that contain significant findings for women who use the oral contraceptives Yaz or Yasmin. One of the studies was supervised by a leading authority on oral contraceptives, Dr. F. R. Rosendaal, of Leiden University in Leiden, Netherlands, and involved 1524 women. The other study involved all of the women in Denmark, 10.4 million women years.

Yazmin and Yaz Related Studies

The two studies include: The venous thombotic risk of oral contraceptives, effects of oestrogen dose and progestogen type: results of the MEGA case-control study, van Hylckama Vlieg, Helmerhorst, Vandenbroucke, Doggen & Rosendaal, BMJ 2009;339:b2921; and Hormonal contraception and risk of venous thromboembolism: national follow-up study, Lidegaard, Lokkegaard, Svendsen, & Agger (all of Copenhagen, Denmark), BMJ 2009;339:b2890.

Findings of the British Medical Journal Online Yasmin Studies

First, the studies concluded that women taking combination oral contraceptives (OC) containing drosperinone, such as Yaz and Yasmin, are six to seven times as likely to suffer a thromboembolism (such as Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) or Pulmonary Embolism (PE)). This risk is equal to other third generation birth control pills.

Second, the studies found that Yaz / Yasmin did not provide any increased benefit for acne or weight loss, which are benefits Bayer previously touted for the drug. The study also found that there was no proof of improved effectiveness of treatment for premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) or similar premenstrual symptoms.

Third, the study also showed that women are at the highest risk of developing having a thrombotic event in the first three months of taking the OC.

A large number of women participated in the study, which was conducted by well-credentialed clinical investigators and, therefore, Bayer really must reexamine its warnings on Yaz and Yasmin to better educate and warn women about the risks of using these products, which includes the risk of DVT, PE and gull bladder injury, among other Yasmin side effects.

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