Posted on 15 September 2009
Teenage girls taking low-dose oral contraceptives showed abnormally low levels of bone growth, and sometimes even lost density, compared with teens who took birth control pills with a higher dose of estrogen, Czech researchers found. In a randomized, crossover trial, bone mineral density (BMD) failed to increase in girls 15 to 19 years old who took [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 20 August 2009
A Dutch study on the safety of birth control pills shed more light on the dangers of hormonal contraceptives. Scientists have long known that oral contraceptives, which contain the female hormones estrogen and progestogen, increase the likelihood of deep vein thrombosis of the leg and pulmonary embolism, but new studies in Denmark and the Netherlands determined [...] Continue Reading...
Posted on 12 June 2009
Switzerland’s highest medical authority is investigating the case of a 16 year girl who suffered a lung embolism and is now severly disabled. The victim was taking the hormonal contraceptive Yasmin. Switzerland’s medicines supervisor says it will analyse all birth control pills after a young woman suffered a lung embolism possibly linked to a contraceptive. A spokesman [...] Continue Reading...
Teenage girls taking low-dose oral contraceptives showed abnormally low levels of bone growth, and sometimes even lost density, compared with teens who took birth control pills with a higher dose of estrogen, Czech researchers found. In a randomized, crossover trial, bone mineral density (BMD) failed to increase in girls 15 to 19 years old who took [...] [...more]
A Dutch study on the safety of birth control pills shed more light on the dangers of hormonal contraceptives. Scientists have long known that oral contraceptives, which contain the female hormones estrogen and progestogen, increase the likelihood of deep vein thrombosis of the leg and pulmonary embolism, but new studies in Denmark and the Netherlands determined [...] [...more]
Switzerland’s highest medical authority is investigating the case of a 16 year girl who suffered a lung embolism and is now severly disabled. The victim was taking the hormonal contraceptive Yasmin. Switzerland’s medicines supervisor says it will analyse all birth control pills after a young woman suffered a lung embolism possibly linked to a contraceptive. A spokesman [...] [...more]
A 2005 press release stating the connection of hormonal birth control and cancer made plenty of headlines when it associated the pill with a lowered risk of ovarian cancer. The very same press release also pointed to findings of a higher risk of breast cancer among women taking the pill. Somehow this news did not [...] [...more]
The pill that promised no periods is now associated with serious health risks, including sudden death. The attorneys at Morgan & Morgan are warning consumers that Yasmin (also known as Yaz) birth control pills have been linked to serious side effects, including heart attack, stroke, and death. Yaz and Yasmin, as well as the generic equivalent [...] [...more]
Nuvaring has been the target of multiple lawsuits. One more death is being attributed to Nuvaring. Is NuvaRing to blame for Jackie Bozicev’s death? Her husband believes so. Jackie died in December 2007. An autopsy showed she died of a blood clot that traveled from her pelvic area to her lungs. Her husband Rob was baffled. Up [...] [...more]
According to an article in the NationalPost, a new study finds that women who get pregnant within a few weeks of taking birth-control pills are more likely to have low birth-weight or premature babies. Women who get pregnant within a few weeks of taking birth-control pills seem much more likely than others to have low birth-weight [...] [...more]
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