Meningioma related to the birth control shot.
Pfizer’s Depo-Provera injectable birth control dramatically increases brain tumor risks, confirmed by multiple studies including a 2024 French analysis. Canada and the EU mandate meningioma warnings, but the FDA refuses to act, leaving American women uninformed and at risk. More than 1,200 women are suing Pfizer for failing to warn them, with some suffering permanent […]
Pfizer is facing lawsuits from over a thousand women who claim they developed brain tumors after using the company's contraceptive injection, Depo-Provera.
Pfizer is facing lawsuits from over a thousand women who claim they developed brain tumors after using the company's contraceptive injection, Depo-Provera.
Pfizer faces lawsuits from 1,000 women alleging Depo-Provera birth control caused brain tumours, amid new research showing higher meningioma risk.
Women who use a certain type of birth control face a higher risk of developing a brain tumor, according to a new study that comes as the contraceptive's maker, Pfizer, faces over 1,200 lawsuits.
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Pfizer is facing a landmark lawsuit in the US brought on behalf of more than 1000 women who say they developed brain tumors after taking the popular contraceptive injection Depo-Provera.
US class action lawsuit alleges company failed to warn about risks of using contraceptive injection Depo-Provera
From Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Cleveland Clinic, investigators report that depot medroxyprogesterone acetate use was associated with a higher relative risk of meningioma brain tumor diagnosis in US women, with risk concentrated after more than four years of exposure or initiation at older than 31 years.
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Ruth Hart was putting on her make-up one morning in March 2021 before heading to work, when she noticed something odd.
Millions of women in the United States trust the safety of their birth control, never imagining it could lead to severe health conditions like a brain tumor.
A common contraceptive pill could be linked to an increased risk of potentially life-threatening brain tumours, scientists warn
Desogestrel is a synthetic progestogen hormone used in oral contraceptives, specifically the progestogen-only pill (POP) or mini-pill
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