WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CN) - The latest liability lawsuit involving Bayer's Yasmin birth-control pill claims the drug contains a dangerous diuretic "that has never been marketed in the U.S." Bayer faces ...

The oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer HealthCare, largely as a result of marketing that presents them as much more than mere pregnancy prevention.

Bayer has been hit with four federal suits claiming its Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills caused 50 deaths, according to the National Law Journal. Abaray alleges Yaz and Yasmin have a higher rate of ...

GREAT NECK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Andres F. Alonso, Esq., a partner in the law firm of Parker Waichman Alonso LLP, has been appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the Yasmin and Yaz ...

Bayer, Germany’s largest drugmaker, will pay at least $110 million to settle about 500 lawsuits over claims that its Yasmin line of birth-control pills caused blood clots, in the first resolution of ...

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A class action, Dembrowski v. Bayer Inc., QBG 1611 of 2009, commenced in the Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan, was certified to advance claims ...

Two of the most popular types of birth control pills have been linked to the deaths of at least 23 Canadian women, according to CBC News. More than half of the women who died were under the age of 26, ...

While all birth control pills can have side effects, some patients, lawyers and researchers claim Yaz , Yasmin and the generic Ocella are even more likely to cause dangerous problems. But most doctors ...

OTTAWA, Ontario — Health Canada records indicate that at least 23 deaths and 600 adverse reactions have been reported among women taking the birth-control pills (BCPs) Yaz and Yasmin (Bayer) in that ...

Doubts have been growing about Yasmin, Yaz and their sister contraceptives for several years now. And those doubts reached full flower at a Food Drug Administration advisory panel on Thursday. After ...

When it was first FDA approved in the early 1960s, the birth control pill, like most popularly ingested substances of the era, carried a relatively high risk of stopping your heart. It was called ...

When the oral contraceptives Yasmin and Yaz came on the market in 2001 and 2006, respectively, they were thought to be safer than other birth control pills because they contained a different kind of ...