The dangers of artificial birth control aren’t often discussed. I think it’s important info to get out for women. Actually, it is getting out, but only slowly.
Brenner interviews Hunter Shkolnik, a lawyer bringing lawsuits against Merck. Shkolnik tells Brenner that Organon (the Dutch pharmaceutical company that created the device) launched into NuvaRing’s marketing with a scientist’s research study that had examined only 16 women using NuvaRing. That study, No. 34218, on the release of hormones in different birth-control delivery systems, was so outrageous, Shkolnik tells Brenner, that he felt it justified focusing his entire legal career on drug cases. Shkolnik tells Brenner that the summary prepared by Organon for the F.D.A. was attached to thousands of pages of backup, in which were buried the risks associated with blood clots. “This is a standard subterfuge used by Pharma,” he says. “You bury your bad news in one of 500 studies you have done on ease of use or lipid disorder. Then when the F.D.A. comes back to the drug company, the drug company can say, ‘You had it in your documents.’ If it isn’t in the 30-page summary, the F.D.A. is so understaffed it will never be noticed.”
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Natalie says
December 10, 2013 at 3:09 amIt has always intrigued me that researchers have never marketed a male contraceptive pill. This article (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/269667.php) explains how we are now very close to such a discovery – “Scientists say a new male contraceptive could be available within the next 10 years.” Wow, only TEN years away and we MIGHT have male contraception!
It also explains the reasons why such a thing has not yet happened. “The problem with such approaches is that they have intolerable side effects, such as affecting male sexual activity…” Well, we certainly couldn’t have THAT. So we’ll just risk women’s lives – no one will mind a few deaths and some pulmonary embolisms.
Andrea Mrozek says
December 10, 2013 at 9:30 amThere is a lot of interesting discussions to be had on why women buy into the Pill with such a high percentage. And why men don’t (for themselves). I doubt very much men would take a contraceptive pill in any high numbers and this is why it has not been developed? Just musing…