Bayer sued by Canadians over Yaz and Yasmin

Bayer Pharmaceuticals, the makers of the Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills, is the target of a class action lawsuit initiated by a number of Canadian women. These birth control products are also promoted as an acne medication, marketed to young girls as solution to the potentially chronic skin condition. The lawsuits are targeting Bayer because of a number of severe, life-threatening Yaz side effects; side effects which in many instances are powerful enough to cause death.

Yaz and Yasmin side effects include heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, gall bladder disease, blood clots, deep vein thrombosis, hyperkalemia and cardiac arrest.

Plaintiffs want recompense for expensive hospital bills and for pain and suffering, as well as for the company to make amends for the misleading marketing that downplayed the serious side effects that too often result from taking Yaz and Yasmin.

News of a Yaz recall

The FDA acted to halt distribution of the treacherous Yaz and Yasmin birth control products by forcing Bayer to issue a product recall. This action was predicated by clear evidence in the FDA quality control data that disclosed varying amounts of the hormone drospirenone. A vast increase in cases of otherwise young, healthy people developing blood clots is connected with drospirenone; data that demonstrated that Bayer didn’t thoroughly test their new hormone with proper trials before releasing it for public consumption.

The fact that Bayer agreed to spend twenty million dollars to correct their misleading advertisements, in addition to the FDA recall on the drug, indicates that the Canadian plaintiffs will doubtless have all the ammunition they need against Bayer in the courtroom.

The FDA has a mandate to prevent companies from running misleading advertising which blatantly conceals the fact that their products are shown to cause health problems. In the case of Yaz and Yasmin these include strokes, heart attacks, gall bladder disease, pulmonary embolisms and deep vein thrombosis – side effects sadly suffered by women who put their trust in these birth control drugs.

Plenty of current Yaz lawsuits now and plenty more on the horizon

Right now, there are more than 4,000 lawsuits filed against Bayer HealthCare in the US, an it could easily reach over 20,000 court cases, or even many more, depending on how long Bayer continues to sell and promote their drospirenone-containing drugs, resulting in many more innocent young women becoming deathly sick from the outrageous adverse side effects caused by Yaz and Yasmin.

It is unknown exactly what the results of these new Canadian Yaz lawsuits will be, but all signs point to significant judgments for the aggrieved parties in the foreseeable future.