Ortho-McNeil's Birth Control Patch Is Lethal

James Sabatini

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Documents have surfaced showing that Ortho-McNeil, the manufacturer of the Ortho Evra birth-control patch and subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, refused in 2003 to fund a study comparing the Ortho patch to the company's Ortho-Cyclen pill because there was too high of chance that the study may not produce a positive result for the patch.

In November of 2005, the FDA warned that women using the patch had as much as 60% more estrogen in their blood stream than women on the pill, putting them at a higher risk for potentially fatal side effects including stroke and heart attack. Why? - beacause greater exposure to estrogen increases the risk of blood clots.

According to Media Monitors Network:

Documents have surfaced that show Ortho-McNeil has been analyzing the FDA's death and injury reports on women using the Ortho Evra patch and has charts that show a higher rate of blood clots and deaths in women on the patch when compared to women who take birth control pills.