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EmpowHer's Health Tip: Pull Ortho-Evra Birth-Control Patch From Market: Public Citizen

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Posted: Fri., May 9, 2008, 11:03 am
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Topics: Birth-Control Patch, Dangerous, Estrogen, FDA, Medication, Ortho-Evra, Research, Risk factors, Treatments - Traditional, EmpowHer News
     

The Ortho-Evra birth control patch exposes women to dangerous levels of estrogen -- posing a possible two-fold increased risk of blood clots -- and should be removed from the market within six months, says a Public Citizen petition filed Thursday with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
     
     
     
     
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ABC News: Group Asks Government to End Use of Birth-Control Patch

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Posted: Thu., May 8, 2008, 11:37 am
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Topics: Reproductive System, ABC News, consumer advocacy group, Ortho-Evra, News
     

A consumer advocacy group petitioned the government Thursday to pull the birth-control patch off the market, calling it far riskier than the pill.

"Ortho-Evra is a poor choice for women," Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen wrote the Food and Drug Administration.

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