53 New Plaintiffs File a Lawsuit Against Bayer Over Yaz
It looks like Bayer just isn’t getting off the hook any time soon when it comes to Yaz. Another 53 people from all across the United States filed a lawsuit on Aug. 8 against Bayer, the makers of the controversial birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin.
Lead plaintiff Wendy Ridge and 52 others are suing Bayer for the same reason that thousands of other women and their families are: This suit alleges that they have suffered from blood clots and gallstones after taking Yaz.
The plaintiffs in this case live in various states across the country and this suit comes after a commercial aired (alerting people of the dangers involved in taking the drug) that weren’t being warned about a few years ago. In fact, Bayer was ordered by the FDA to correct the original ad which claimed that Yaz was good for treating acne, severe PMS and disphoric disorder as well as birth control. The new ad states, "You may have seen some Yaz commercials recently that were not clear. The FDA wants us to correct a few points in those ads." Even that admission shows that Bayer is forced and not being sincere.
That correction came a little too late for these plaintiffs since their lawsuit is claiming that Bayer and their $20 million ad campaign didn’t warn them about the dangers associated with the pill before they started taking it. The lawsuit complaint states "Defendant knew or should have known that the use of drospirenone in Yaz/Yasmin causes arrhythmia, cardiac arrest/heart attack, intracardiac thrombus, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, stroke and/or gallbladder disease."
The complaint continues by stating, "Despite the wealth of scientific evidence, Defendants have not only ignored the increased risk of the development of the aforementioned injuries associated with the use of Yaz/Yasmin, but they have, through their marketing and advertising campaigns, urged women to use Yaz/Yasmin instead of birth control pills that present a safer alternative."
These points made in the complaint demonstrate this when they point out that from 2004 through 2008, the birth control pill Yaz is reported to have caused as much as 50 deaths and that some of those deaths occurred with women as young as 17.
