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Yaz, Yasmin birth control pills suspected in 23 deaths
CBC News has learned to birth control
pills of suspected links to the deaths
of at least 23 Canadians
Yasmin and yaz are taken safely by
millions of women but for a very few
there can be tragic results and for the
first time in Canada a judge has given
the go-ahead to a class-action lawsuit
Natalie Clancy has the details
it was just another workout for Miranda
Scott until the 18 year old suddenly
dropped dead in her campus gym one of
the people that saw her collapse
backwards and then she said I can't
breathe that was actually the mother had
no idea why her athletic healthy
daughter died so young as soon as I
heard that she had been on Yasmin I
thought oh my god this is what's killed
her
CBC News has obtained the latest adverse
reactions reported to Health Canada yaz
and yasmin are now suspected in the
deaths of 23 Canadian females as young
as 14 years old most died from blood
clots like Miranda Scott Brown top ski
report did say that there was a
pulmonary embolism when the Yasmin
delegation in the class-action is that
it has an increased risk of causing that
this Ontario lawyer is representing
hundreds of women in a class action
lawsuit certified in Ontario against
Bayer the makers of the two pills that
include a unique synthetic progestin
called risperidone Health Canada warns
yaz and yasmin increased the risk of
blood clots compared to older birth
control pills even so that reaction is
rare while one in 10,000 women on older
birth control pills will develop blood
clots as many as three and ten thousand
will develop clots on yaz or Yasmin
usually soon after starting the pills
that was all it took five weeks start to
finish that was the end of a beautiful
beautiful girl the lawyer representing
women outside Ontario believes deaths
like Miranda Scots are vastly
underreported to Health Canada there are
about 30 or 40 deaths that we think are
known but that is usually just the tip
of the iceberg because all sorts of
people will have died they
know anything about the litigation they
don't know anything about the problem he
also claims more than a thousand
Canadian women have had gall bladders
removed strokes or on blood thinners for
the rest of their lives while Bayer has
already paid more than a billion dollars
settling thousands of lawsuits in the
u.s. in a statement to CBC the drug
company says we are very disappointed in
justice cranes decision to certify a
class in Ontario in an ongoing lawsuit
regarding yaz and yasmin we fully stand
behind yaz and yasmin the fact that a
judge is allowing a class action is not
a finding a fault against Bayer the
company is now seeking permission to
appeal the certification of the suit
that alleges hundreds of Canadian women
were injured or died because of its
birth control pills Natalie Clancy CBC
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