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    • The NuvaRing Multi District Lawsuit
  • Media
    • CNN on NuvaRing 2015
    • NuvaRing Discussed on The Doctors TV Show
    • KTVU Channel 2 Investigates: Family calls NuvaRing Settlement ‘Blood money’.
    • FDA approved NuvaRing despite experts’ safety concerns
    • Marie Claire Article: Is Your Birth Control as Safe as You Think?
    • Vanity Fair Article: Danger in the Ring
  • Your Healthcare Provider
    • Doctors Don’t Know What Women Want to Know about Birth Control
    • Dr. Jennifer Ashton suggests these questions to begin a dialogue with your doctor.
    • Drug Reps Tell Docs Little of Side Effects: Survey Many U.S., Canadian and French physicians prescribed the promoted meds anyway
    • Did One Little Sentence Just Change Drug Safety Forever?
    • Ben Goldacre: What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe
    • Videos on Drug Company Dishonesty
    • Dr. David Healy Lecture to medical students – Evidence Based Medicine has become the problem
  • What Can Go Wrong
    • Why a Blood Clot is Serious
    • DVT can lead to pulmonary embolism (PE)
    • What Are the Symptoms of a Blood Clot?
    • Signs of a Cardiac Event
    • More In-Depth Info about Blood Clots – DVT and PE
    • Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
    • Stroke
    • Migraines – Increased Risk of Blood Clots
    • Migraine with Aura Video
    • So What are Migraine Auras?
    • Dealing with Depression after Blood Clots
    • Top 20 Adverse Events Reported to FDA between 2004 and 2012
  • The Research
    • VTE Deaths during Pregnancy/Postpartum appears to be lower than deaths from CHCs
    • Women Harmed by Blood Clots while using Combination Hormonal Birth Control in 2013
    • Expert Witness Says there are spikes in NuvaRing’s Hormone Levels
    • 2015 Research in British Medical Journal
    • Best Pills, Worst Pills says Do Not Use NuvaRing
    • How health risks of the NuvaRing disappeared from the graphs
    • Danish Study says NuvaRing has increased risk
    • 2013 Study of DVT Risk with All Combined Hormonal Contraception
    • FDA-funded Study: “Increased risk of VTE with the NuvaRing is new and raises concern”
    • Thrombotic Stroke and Myocardial Infarction with Hormonal Contraception — NEJM
  • Birth Control Information
    • Why Birth Control Is Important
    • Blood Clots and Birth Control Options
    • The Effects of Hormonal Birth Control on the Body
    • Long Acting Reversible Contraception – LARC
    • THE EASIEST WAY TO PREVENT PREGNANCY ISN’T THE PILL
    • Drop That Pill – Why I Want My Patients Off Birth Control POSTED BY KELLY BROGAN MD
    • Pregnancy and Complications for Women and their Babies
  • Links & Books
  • Tell the FDA, Merck & RxISK.org
  • Karen Langhart Speech

Links & Books

Links we recommend:

BirthControlSafety.org

InformedChoiceforAmerika.com

NuvaRingWisdom.com

HormonesMatter.com

HolyHormones.com

RxISK is a free, independent drug safety website

Harvard University Safra Center for Ethics – Links to various articles done through Harvard University

Download the paper “Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and the Myth of Safe and Effective Drugs”Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2013 Donald W. Light, Rowan University, Harvard University; Joel Lexchin, York University; Jonathan J. Darrow, Harvard Medical School

Download the paper Conflicts of Interest, Institutional Corruption, and Pharma: An Agenda for Reform
by Marc A. Rodwin
Suffolk University Law School; Harvard University – Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

Books we recommend:

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre

Death By Prescription by Terence Young

Pharmageddon by David Healy

Sweetening the Pill: or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control by Holy Grigg-Spal

The Bottom Line or Public Health: Tactics Corporations Use to Influence Health and Health Policy, and What We Can Do to Counter Them by William H. Wiist

The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women by Barbara Seaman

The Truth About the Drug Companies by Marcia Angell, M.D.

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