The Greatest Story Never Told
Mercola.com
Excerpted from:
My New Warning: Avoid THESE Medical Treatments Whenever Possible
Posted By Dr. Mercola | May 09 2011
Women stand the greatest risk of receiving an unnecessary medical procedure. If you are a female living in the US, when it comes to healthcare, you might as well have a target on your back.
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
re: Cycling
November 30th, 2010 by Giovanna Chesler
Rare is the feature on women’s health from a magazine hip to New York City’s nightlife, dining, arts and entertainment. Within the past two months alone the magazine featured articles on the Julie Taymor Spiderman play, Jimmy Fallon and John Stewart. Not what one might consider provoking and thoughtful. Yet this week’s issue arrived with a juicy six page article titled Waking Up From the Pill that asks readers to consider the side effects of hormonal birth control.
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
re: cycling
November 17th, 2010 by Holly Grigg-Spall
Despite facing ever-rising numbers of lawsuits over their top-selling drug – birth control pill Yaz – the Bayer pharmaceutical company has released a rebranded version, with added vitamin B. Despite, or perhaps as a result of, the mounting claims for compensation made by those who believe Yaz, or more specifically the synthetic progesterone component of Yaz – drospirenone, caused their stroke, blood clot or heart attack or that of their now dead or disabled loved one, the company has seen fit to produce a modified alternative to improve on the risk of other, lesser known side effects.
Birth control pills appear to remodel brain structure
Scientific American
By Craig H. Kinsley and Elizabeth A. Meyer September 28, 2010
It seems that weekly we hear about some professional athlete who sullies himself and his sport through abuse of steroids. The melodrama unfolds, careers and statistics are brought low and asterisked, and everyone bemoans another fallen competitor. Yet there are millions of cases of steroid use that occur daily with barely a second thought: Millions of women take birth control pills, blithely unaware that their effects may be subtly seeping into and modulating brain structure and activity.
The Times of India
ANI, Aug 4, 2010, 12.01pm IST
In a new study, scientists found that African American women who use oral contraceptives have a greater likelihood of developing breast cancer than nonusers.
Yaz and Yasmin complaints focus on the synthetic progestin, drospirenone. Studies have not found an increased risk with these pills, though.
Tammy Worth Special to the Los Angeles Times
April 19, 2010
When the oral contraceptives Yasmin and Yaz came on the market in 2001 and 2006, respectively, they were thought to be safer than other birth control pills because they contained a different kind of synthetic progestin.
But in a flurry of lawsuits against the pills’ maker, Bayer HealthCare, attorneys claim that the progestin contained in the pills, drospirenone, is the cause of health problems, including deep vein thrombosis (blood clots in the deep veins), strokes, heart attacks and gallbladder disease.
bnet.com
By Jim Edwards | Apr 7, 2010
Merck (MRK)’s Nuvaring contraceptive appears to be headed for the same fate as Bayer (BAY)’s Yaz pill and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)’s Ortho Evra contraceptive patch: It’s becoming a pinata for plaintiffs’ lawyers who allege the device is more dangerous than older, equally effective products on the market.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / PRURGENT
March 8, 2010
Oral contraception has been closely linked to a certain deadly type of breast cancer, a leading cancer journal stated recently, and the results may prove to challenge the breast cancer research community.
A study concerning the deadly “triple negative” breast cancer, involving more than 1500 women aged 20 – 45, found a “distinct etiology,” or cause and effect, for women who used oral contraception for longer than a year, and an even stronger correlation for women who began using it before the age of 18.
The study was published in the April 2009 Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention over a five-year period.
February 5, 2010
Sweetening the Pill
What one girl found out about the birth control pill that you ought to know
Occasionally I like to take a look at how the lawsuits against Bayer Schering Pharma and their birth control pill Yaz are progressing. Today, when I made my usual Google trawl, I came across a piece regarding the enquiries the lawyers have been receiving from women who did not suffer from blood clots or their consequential strokes and heart problems, but experienced the anxiety and depression that I had for a good six months before I realized what was happening.
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