Will the FDA Recall Birth Control Products Yasmin & Ocella?
From The Record: After a birth control pill spent months in the spotlight during commercials aimed at correcting misrepresentations about it, the pill is now at the center of a St. Clair County lawsuit. Kerry Sims filed a lawsuit Aug. 18 against Bayer and Walgreens, alleging her ingestion of the birth control pill Yasmin, which is also known as Yaz, caused her to experience a blood clot in her lung and infection surrounding the clot. The suit comes after a commercial warning of some fallacies about the pill repeatedly ran on television for months. “You may have seen some Yaz commercials recently that were not clear,” the ad says. “The FDA wants us to correct a few points in those ads.” It goes on to say Yaz is used to treat the less serious premenstrual dysphoric disorder and moderate acne, not the more serious premenstrual syndrome or mild acne as Bayer once advertised. But the $20 million Bayer spent on the commercial is not enough for Sims, who says the company failed to warn her ab
