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More Ortho Evra® News
Ortho Evra® is again in the spotlight as a Kentucky woman has filed a federal lawsuit against the makers of the Ortho Evra® birth control patch.
Tonya Dingess, 36, recently filed a personal injury lawsuit against Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson.
Dingess experienced blood clots in her legs, lung, and spleen which started about five weeks after she began using the Ortho Evra® birth control patch.
She came within hours of dying according to Dingess's attorneys. Dingess was in severe pain for almost two weeks and then was hospitalized for six days because of the blood clots that Ortho Evra® caused.
An Associated Press report identified about a dozen young women who died in 2004 from blood clots linked to the Ortho Evra® patch. The Associated Press analyzed 16,000 FDA reports of adverse events related to Ortho Evra® and found that patch users were three times more likely to suffer blood clots and die, compared with women taking birth control pills.
In November 2005, the FDA announced a new warning about the Ortho Evra® birth control patch. The warning said that women who use Ortho Evra® may be exposed to 60 percent more estrogen than women who take a traditional birth control pill.
To date more than 100 women have filed lawsuits against the maker of Ortho Evra®.
Reference:
"Kentucky Woman Sues Maker of Birth Control Patch, Ortho Evra," Lexington Herald-Leader KY, Barbara Isaacs, August 2006.
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