Popular birth control pills promotes blood clot risk

Among the most popular contraceptive pills available in the Canada - Yaz and Yasmin - carry a higher risk of serious blood clots than some other oral contraceptives, two new studies say.

Studies - both published Thursday in the British Medical Journal Online Edition - show that pills containing a new type of hormone called progestin drospirenone carry up to triple the risk of serious blood clots (known as venous thromboembolisms) on an old generation of pills containing a hormone called levonorgestrel.

Drospirenone is the key ingredient of Yasmin and Yaz, manufactured by Bayer and widely prescribed in the Canada. /

Focused on the drospirenone pills Yaz and Yasmin had global sales of 2 billion dollars in 2009, reports indicated.

Program market from the CBC raised health concerns regarding Yaz and Yasmin in January. Co-Chair Erica Johnson spoke to a number of young women who took the two brands of pills and health problems serious experienced.

More than 4,000 women have taken legal action against Bayer and more than 800 in the Canada joined a class action.

The findings provide evidence that the ancient oral contraceptives "appear to be a safer choice in thromboembolism than preparations containing drospirenone,", explains Dr. Susan Jick, school of medicine, Boston University, who led the research team.

In the first study, the researchers found the risk of a blood clot non-fatal in women using pills drospirenone of was double the risk for women using levonorgestrel containing oral contraceptives.

The study stresses that the overall risk of serious blood clots remains low – even in women taking the pill on the drospirenoane. Incidence rates were 30.8 per 100 000 years of women among the users of drospirenone versus 12.5 by 100 000 years of woman among users of levonorgestrel pills.

The researchers investigated existing U.S. medical claims data to reach their conclusions.

In the second study, researchers have discovered the first non-fatal blood clot risk among women with drospirenone containing oral contraceptives to women who have used the pill levonorgestrel-based almost tripled.

"Prescribe preparations of levonorgestrel risk lower than the choice of first line for women wishing to take an oral contraceptive appear prudent," say the authors.

In a statement, Bayer said Canada "the way the authors applied the methodology of the study reported in these two publications of defects on important show" and maintained that previous studies have shown that Yaz and Yasmin are as safe as other birth control pills.

"In view of the scientific body already large and robust evidence, notice of Bayer, these studies do not change the overall evaluation of the safety of oral contraceptives Bayer," the company said.

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Clinic promotes smoking as cancer cure

A clinic in Indonesia that cigarette smoke can cure cancer and to treat emphysema. Tobacco is addictive and harmful, but Indonesians take the habit in getting gr??eren-- and jüngere--numbers.

An Indonesian woman exhales cigarette smoke into the mouth of a gaunt, naked patients in a hospital in Jakarta, where tobacco is openly propagated cure as cancer.

The Western patient suffers from emphysema, a condition that they developed from decades of smoking. It is just a the complaints along with cancer and autism clinic Griya Balur claims that it can heal with cigarettes.

"I that missed" says the woman, a regular customer with an American accent, such as Phil Collins' "I can feel it" roaring in the background.

Griya Balur would be down in many parts of the world, but not in Indonesia, one of the developing countries new frontiers for the big tobacco companies, because it tries, its dwindling profits in the West replace health-conscious.

Regulation combined with poor long traditions of tobacco use and billions of dollars flowing into government coffers of the tobacco industry mean places like Griya Balur go unchallenged.

The "treatment" for the suffering emphysema contains bubbles of 'divine cigarettes' smoke from their infused "free radicals," with "Nanotechnology" cancer causing you remove through a tube into her diseased lungs.

Smoke is blown in her ears and nose, while she holds a cup of aspirin over her right eye. Phil Collins, it seems has no healing properties.

Griya Balur founder Gretha Zahar told AFP she had dealt with tobacco smoke 60,000 people in the last decade.

Doctorate in Nano chemistry Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java, Zahar believes that through the manipulation of mercury in tobacco can smoke all diseases such as cancer reverse to heal, and even the aging process.

"Mercury is the cause of all diseases." In my cigarettes-we call it divine cigarettes - there are scavengers, you extract the mercury from the body, "she said."

On her website she says she must not their theories, the clinical trials are subject to, or publish in journals, nor has the money "fight" with "Western physicians."

Zahar's claims presented where farmers and legislators of the tobacco law challenge hub of Central Java, which recognizes the sheet as addictive recently at the Constitutional Court.

ARIS Widodo, a Professor of Pharmacology University of Brawijaya in Malang, East Java, told the Court that he never someone die from smoking is had. On the contrary, he said, was smoking good for you.

"Smoking can eliminate fear, sharpen to calm concentration and the nerves." It is a good cheap alternative to other expensive drugs such as valium, "he said."

Tobacco is addictive and harmful, but Indonesians take the habit in getting gr??eren-- and jüngere-- numbers, cheered on by the tobacco industry of aggressive marketing.

Addicts puff anywhere from beauty salons, dentist waiting rooms. Parents give children cigarettes to keep them quiet. Cigarettes are handed out for young people together with concert tickets. Laws prohibit public smoking are rarely, if ever enforced, and tobacco advertising is omnipresent on roadsides and television screens of the country.

Costs about $1 for a pack of 20 cigarettes, but they are often the second largest item of expenditure of households to food for the Southeast Asian country's poorest families.

According to the World Health Organization rates have increased smoking six-fold in Indonesia in the last 40 years. Smoking kills at least 400,000 people each year and a further 25,000 die from passive smoking.

But Indonesia is the only country in Asia not to WHO ratified have the framework Convention on tobacco control, sets policy recommendations and benchmarks for countries concerned about the effects of smoking on health.

Indonesia's largest cigarette manufacturer, PT HM Sampoerna, is a subsidiary of Philip Morris International. British American tobacco bought Indonesia's fourth-largest cigarette maker, PT Bentoel, for $494 million in 2009.

The Government employs reaps about $7 billion per year in excise taxes from the industry, the scores of thousands of people on Temanggung in Central Java.

Anti-smoke campaigners say players in the industry from their old marketing textbook of science and paint smoking as cool, masculine, glamorous and even healthy, covering in particular on women and children are dusting.

While the discussion of smoking regulations in 2009 a clause says tobacco the effect of the final draft producing addiction missing. The Government said the omission was a mere provided and later inserted the clause.

Ministry of health, the official BUDi Sampurno in question provided he was, but claims that tobacco companies had nothing to do.

"Never." Is there a proof? We have never raised by tobacco companies have been. That said not legal practice, "he."

Hakim Sorimuda Pohan, was a Democratic Party legislator helped Bill who said health, without a doubt, it was big tobacco behind the shenanigans.

"she did the same thing in 1992." Tobacco companies successfully the same clause omitted from the law had, "he said."

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