Comments on: FDA panel that approved Yaz and Yasmin had ties with industry https://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/11/fda-panel-yaz-yasmin/ Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:51:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Faulty Drugs https://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/11/fda-panel-yaz-yasmin/comment-page-1/#comment-34449 Thu, 03 May 2012 20:09:44 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8423#comment-34449 […] panel that approved Yaz and Yasmin had ties with industry – https://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/11/fda-panel-yaz-yasmin/ […]

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]]> By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/11/fda-panel-yaz-yasmin/comment-page-1/#comment-27434 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:42:27 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8423#comment-27434 Hi Dr. Joe – since there ARE other oral contraceptives out there, this case is indeed mystifying. As Dr. David Kessler wrote in his FDA submission: “Bayer repeatedly overstated the benefits of the pills and downplayed their risks, engaging in extensive, systematic off-label promotion of Yasmin and YAZ for PMS, in violation of FDA law and regulations, thereby unnecessarily exposing large numbers of women to risk of thromboembolic events.” And yet this advisory panel’s members (with financial ties to Bayer) conclude that there’s no problem here. A good example of “marketing-based medicine” at its finest.

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]]> By: Dr Joe Kosterich https://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/11/fda-panel-yaz-yasmin/comment-page-1/#comment-27422 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:45:46 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8423#comment-27422 I have been amazed by this unfolding story. Says something about profitability that the company does not withdraw the drug given the number of lawsuits. Vioxx does come to mind. And it is not as if there are not other oral contraceptives available.

Or (and I do have my tongue firmly in cheek) maybe blood clots are God’s way of “punishing” those evil souls who use birth control

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]]> By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/11/fda-panel-yaz-yasmin/comment-page-1/#comment-27418 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:34:57 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8423#comment-27418 I don’t get it either. Physicians continue to prescribe this drug despite over 10,000 pending lawsuits over injuries allegedly caused by the pills, including FDA reports on at least 50 deaths of those taking Yaz or Yasmin from 2004 to 2008. Do we have another Vioxx on our hands here?

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]]> By: cave76 https://ethicalnag.org/2012/02/11/fda-panel-yaz-yasmin/comment-page-1/#comment-27392 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:02:38 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=8423#comment-27392 And yet Yaz continues to be sold for birth control, after the misleading information was removed, of course. “Lifestyle” drug information was removed but the other dangers of Yaz weren’t changed. Sigh.

“Risk of blood clots higher for oral contraceptives with certain progestins” JAMA 2011

“Certain progestins” = drospirenone

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