Michigan woman sues Bayer over serious injuries linked to Yaz
January 29th, 2010 joshua
A Michigan woman has filed a lawsuit against Bayer Corp. seeking claims for serious health injuries she suffered after taking the birth control drug Yaz.
Bayer has come under increasing amounts of criticism over its fourth-generation birth control Yaz, which is also sold under the names Yasmin and Ocella. It has been linked to numerous injuries, among them blood clots.
In a news release, Inkster, Mich., resident Ashia Moore says she started taking Yaz in 2004. In 2008, Moore was forced into a hospital suffering from the loss of her gall bladder and deep vein thrombosis in her legs and lungs.
Moore’s case is based on the claims of many across the country, including the Food and Drug Administration. Last year, the FDA warned Bayer over the content of its marketing and advertising materials for Yaz.
The defendant in this particular case says Bayer failed to indicate that one of Yaz’ components, progestin drospirenone, was not fully tested on humans. Bayer’s ads and marketing materials for the birth control indicated it had endured the most rigorous of FDA and safety testing.
Regulators found more evidence of misleading information written by Bayer to promote Yaz, including ads on Web sites like YouTube.com that contained no safety information at all.
Bayer has since been forced to spend at least $20 million to correct previous statements it made about Yaz, but thousands of women like Moore started taking the drug long before that revelation. It is believed at least 25,000 women could file similar lawsuits against Bayer due to injuries they suffered while taking Yaz.
