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Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Files Suit
www.biospace.com | 5 hours 57 minutes ago
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Bayer Pharma, and Merck & Cie have filed suit against Watson Pharmaceuticals in the US District Court for the

Pfizer recalls 1m packets of birth control pills - FT.com
www.ft.com | Feb 1, 2012
Pfizer, the world’s largest drug maker by revenues, has recalled 1m packets of birth control pills after finding that faulty packaging could potentially lead to unwanted pregnancies. “As a result of this packaging error, the daily regimen for these

Oral contraceptive benefit confirmed for dysmenorrhoea | 6minutes
www.6minutes.com.au | Jan 20, 2012
Oral contraceptive use is associated with a reduced severity of dysmenorrhoea, but newer contraceptives may have less impact, a Scandinavian study suggests.

How Effective are the Birth Control Pills? | PRLog
www.prlog.org | Jan 3, 2012
How Effective are the Birth Control Pills?. The way in which the Birth control works, is that it releases various chemical hormones within your body. - PR11762373

Intrauterine device and cervical cancer: we need more evidence – Authors' reply : The Lancet
www.thelancet.com | Jan 2, 2012
Intrauterine device and cervical cancer: we need more evidence – Authors' reply. By - Xavier Castellsagué, Mireia Díaz, Salvatore Vaccarella, Silvia de Sanjosé, Nubia Muñoz, Rolando Herrero, Silvia...

Study Confirms Higher Blood Clot Risk with Newer Birth Control Pills
www.prweb.com | Oct 28, 2011
Women Who Take Certain Oral Contraceptive Pills such as Yaz or Yasmin Are More Likely to Develop Venous Thromboembolism, Explains Ennis & Ennis, P.A.

Medical News: Fourth Generation Progestin Increases Risk of Clots - in Cardiovascular, Venous
www.medpagetoday.com | Apr 21, 2011
Women using oral contraceptives that contain the progestin drospirenone (Yaz, Yasmin) have approximately twice the risk of nonfatal venous thromboembolism as those using levonorgestrel contraceptives,

oral contraceptive containing folate | Pharma Asia
www.pharmaasia.com | Feb 8, 2011
The US FDA has approved Bayer’s oral contraceptive Safyral which is the second in Bayer’s oral contraceptive portfolio containing folate. In women who choose an oral contraceptive (OC) for birth control, Safyral raises folate levels with the aim of reducing the risk of a neural tube defect

Reportlinker Adds Global Contraceptives Industry | SYS-CON MEDIA
www.sys-con.com | Nov 17, 2010
SYS-CON Media, NJ, The world's leading i-technology media company on breaking technology news.

Long-term anabolic steroid use may weaken heart more than previously thought
americanheart.mediaroom.com | Apr 28, 2010
AHA: A healthy left ventricle pumps out 55 percent to 70 percent of the blood that fills the heart (a measurement known as ejection fraction). Eighty-three percent of steroid users in the 12-person study had a low pumping capacity (ejection fraction less than 55 percent) that previous studies have