Yaz
Yaz - Misdirection and Danger
Yaz, also known as Drospirenone, is a female oral contraceptive that has benefited from extensive marketing in recent years. Highly popular with and marketed to the 20- to 30-year-old demographic, it has developed a reputation as a trendy medicine that a young woman can take for a number of reasons, including contraception, acne, weight maintenance and possibly even pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS).
However, few of these women know that Yaz has been plagued with certain problems on a regular basis for quite some time. For example, in 2008, the makers of Yaz were sent a letter warning them against misleading business practices. The letter specifically cited the company for making misleading claims that Yaz was effective in more women than studies thus far had indicated. This implied that Yaz was seen as generally safe, perhaps more safe than its actual use would indicate. Furthermore, the letter claimed that the company had implied Yaz could treat PMS and related conditions, when in fact the medicine was not tested for nor approved for such uses.
While the latter might be forgivable under the idea of overenthusiastic marketing, such allowances fade when information such as this is considered. Yaz has been linked by an increasing number of studies to cardiac incidents such as embolisms and strokes. Yaz is suspected of causing an overall thickening of the blood, which leads to clots being thrown into the brain or the heart and causing damage. This risk is at least comparable to and possibly excessive of other oral contraceptives.
Further, the FDA sent another warning letter one year later, citing Bayer for improper practices in its studies of Yaz. The usual method of study (and the most accurate) is to report the result of each batch of tests done. Bayer had instead averaged out the results into one overall result. This obscured the signs of individual risks in some of the studies, thus giving the consumers and producers a picture that was not in fact accurate.
If you took Yaz and had a stroke or pulmonary embolism and would like more information, please contact our attorneys for legal assistance as soon as possible.
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-2- http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/ucm211762.htm
-3- http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/ucm182206.htm