News Tagged ‘Ohio

Birth control pills contribute to more strokes among young women

stroke 100x100 Birth control pills contribute to more strokes among young womenStrokes are considered an old person’s disease, but data collected by a physician in the Ohio-Kentucky area suggests the condition is striking more young people than ever before. “This is scary,” Brett Kissela, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute, told the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

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Ohio mother sues Bayer, alleging Yaz caused blood clot

dvt 100x100 Ohio mother sues Bayer, alleging Yaz caused blood clotA 30-year-old mother of three has joined the hundreds of women who have filed lawsuits against Bayer HealthCare, alleging that her use of the birth-control pill Yaz caused her to develop life-threatening blood clots in her left leg.

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