News Tagged ‘heart attacks

Mother of Ortho Evra user asks why her daughter had to die

evra 3patches 150x150Leslie Niedner can’t make sense of the death of her 17-year-old daughter Adrianna. She was a healthy and active college freshman. It was later revealed that what killed her was a blood clot in her lung, also known as a pulmonary embolism. But how could such a condition happen to someone so young and healthy?

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J&J settles lawsuits with Canadian women harmed by birth control patch

hand hold patch 128x150Johnson & Johnson, the makers of the Ortho Evra contraceptive patch for women, has agreed to settle lawsuits filed by Canadian women who suffered from , heart attacks or strokes after using the . The drug maker avoided trial by spending more than $68 million to settle similar claims by women in the United States, according to Bloomberg.

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Ortho Evra lawsuit settled for $1.25m as J&J tries to avoid public trials

Ortho Evra manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, recently settled a with the family of a 14-year-old girl killed by the defective birth control . The case is just one of many Ortho Evra lawsuits settled by Johnson & Johnson prior to going trial.

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