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]
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]
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]
The latest headline about the birth control pill is about how it hinders women’s ability to build muscle. According to researchers at Texas A&M University and University of Pittsburgh women who take oral contraceptives (OC) will find any muscle which might be gained from resistance exercise training is impaired. The researchers from Texas A&M and the [...] [...more]
A little while ago we reported on a Birth Control Pill related death. Today, yet another case was reported: A 24-year-old Haifa woman who was planning to get married in two months died suddenly this week after a blood clot was discovered in her lungs. Physicians believe that her death was partly due to the hormones [...] [...more]
A new study suggests that women taking birth control pills face higher risks (2.5 times) of developing lupus, an autoimmune disease. Although the link between lupus and oral contraceptives has been debated for some time, this new study adds weight to earlier studies — including the Nurses’ Health Study — that have shown a link between [...] [...more]
Any drug seeking FDA approval would fail miserably if 1 in 10,000 subjects suffered from brain clots. Hormonal birth control pill users however run the serious risk (2 in 10,000) of developing potentially fatal blood clots. A recent case reported today clearly illustrates the real dangers of the pill. Most women pop it for birth [...] [...more]
It has come as no surprise that few sites clearly list the risks, side-effects, and dangers of the popular hormonal contraceptive Ortho Tri-Cyclen. In any random group of educated people, it would probably be easy to get a consensus regarding the dangers of steroid use or synthetic hormones by men. The daily use of a [...] [...more]
A strange interaction between grapefruit and birth control pill may have cause of a blood clot. An American woman in her 40s nearly lost a leg to gangrene because of a confluence of health factors exacerbated by a diet that included daily doses of grapefruit, the doctors who treated her reported in a medical journal on [...] [...more]
Today one in every eight women in the United States develops breast cancer. Between 1940 and 1982, there was a steady increase of about 1% per year in the incidence of invasive breast cancer; Between 1973 and 1982, the rate of in situ breast cancer increased about 2% per year; Between 1982 and 1988, the rate of in [...] [...more]
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