New Recall Alert for Oral Contraceptives

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Qualitest Pharmaceuticals has issued a nationwide, retail-level recall of several lots of its birth control pills, following a packaging error that could lead to improper dosing, leaving women without proper protection and increasing their risk for unintended pregnancy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has instructed consumers who have already been exposed to the affected [...]

Health Canada Reviewing Safety of Birth Control Pills

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Health Canada is currently reviewing the safety of Bayer Pharmaceutical’s birth control pills, Yaz and Yasmin, in an effort to determine if women who use these drugs are at an increased risk of developing life-threatening blood clots over women using different brands of birth control. The review was prompted by two new studies recently published [...]