"this could mean..." would be the operative phrase and I would remain safely skeptical until the product has been on the market for a couple of years and prove. Brief and often manipulated clinical trials are simply no sufficient to prove that a product is truly safe for women. The Yasmin/YAZ pill, which is currently subject to investigation and possible recall is supposed to provide reliable birth control and is marketed for such wonderful secondary benefits including reducing PMS and curing acne. Since Yasmin's release on the market there have been numerous cases of young and otherwise health women suffering irreversible and debilitating complications including pulmonary embolisms and stroke. Some died. Many of us take the attitude "it would never happen to me" but it does and has. Trusting profit driven pharmaceutical companies with our reproductive health is foolish when they have time and again demonstrated an inability to develop safe and effective contraceptive options.
It is time to stop taking risks with our precious health, abandon the hopeful thinking around "magic pills" and adopt more natural and safer ways of managing fertility.
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"this could mean..." would be the operative phrase and I would remain safely skeptical until the product has been on the market for a couple of years and prove. Brief and often manipulated clinical trials are simply no sufficient to prove that a product is truly safe for women. The Yasmin/YAZ pill, which is currently subject to investigation and possible recall is supposed to provide reliable birth control and is marketed for such wonderful secondary benefits including reducing PMS and curing acne. Since Yasmin's release on the market there have been numerous cases of young and otherwise health women suffering irreversible and debilitating complications including pulmonary embolisms and stroke. Some died. Many of us take the attitude "it would never happen to me" but it does and has. Trusting profit driven pharmaceutical companies with our reproductive health is foolish when they have time and again demonstrated an inability to develop safe and effective contraceptive options.
It is time to stop taking risks with our precious health, abandon the hopeful thinking around "magic pills" and adopt more natural and safer ways of managing fertility.
June 9, 2009 - 11:52pmThis Comment
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