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ABC News: Group Asks Government to End Use of Birth-Control Patch
By hernews
Created May 8 2008 - 11:37am

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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