What you need to know about the Yaz Lawsuits

Amidst allegations that their birth control brands Yaz and Yasmin, drospirenone products, can cause serious and possibly life-threatening side effects, the Bayer Corporation has been flooded with lawsuits from women who feel that the company misrepresented its product.

Concerning side effects that some women have experienced include blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, gall bladder disease, and pancreatitis – even in patients who would have otherwise been healthy. The Food and Drug Administration has advised the Bayer Corporation that they have misrepresented their product in advertisements, in which they exaggerate the benefits of the product and gloss over the more worrying side effects.

The Food and Drug Administration recently forced the Bayer Corporation to issue a recall of the product, and many lawsuits are being filed by women who have suffered some of the more serious side effects. More than 150,000 boxes of birth control pills have been recalled, including a large quantity of the generic brand Ocella. Bayer Corporation has failed to acknowledge that the risks of taking Yaz or Yasmin outweigh the benefits, especially since there are other safer medications on the market that perform the task that these drugs are meant to.

The number of women who are reporting serious complications relating to these medications is on the increase, but Yaz and Yasmin remain among the most popular forms of oral contraceptives on the market.