News for May 11th, 2010

Yaz victim says blood clots ‘could have been avoided’

The stories have become too familiar. Young women mysteriously stricken with life threatening blood clots, a direct result of their birth control pill. Leanne Letendre is one of the latest victims. Just last year the young mother became extremely fatigued while doing housework. “I couldn’t even make it up a flight of stairs. I had to go up three stairs, stop and then finish,” she told WBZ-TV. “I was so sick, I couldn’t even think.”

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