Personal Injury & Torts
Oct. 24, 2009
Legal Challenges Pile Up Against Yaz
A California woman and her husband filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court claiming the birth control pill Yaz caused her stroke and that Bayer Corp. fraudulently marketed the drug.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Susan Galinis was picking up a cheesecake for a party last January when the store clerk asked about her hair, which had been shaved for brain surgery. Galinis told the young woman the surgery was to repair damage from a stroke she suffered after taking a birth control pill called Yaz.
"She said she was just about to go to the doctor to get the pill because she'd seen the comm...
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