| Numerous users of the Nuva Ring birth control | | | | pull out NuvaRing or the hormonal drug |
| device have filed a Nuvaring class action lawsuit | | | | desogestrel but for the companies to enhance |
| against Organon, the manufacturer of NuvaRing | | | | their labels with comprehensive information. The |
| contraceptives. They feel that the company was | | | | latest course of action we found in the net is the |
| remiss in informing them the extent of bodily | | | | FDA’s issuance of a new rule directing a drug |
| damage like the Nuvaring stroke. There are | | | | company to revise the package insert or label of |
| several steps which they have already taken. | | | | certain drugs in question. In addition, warnings |
| The aggrieved parties mistook certain side | | | | about the serious side effects like Nuva Ring |
| effects and considered the results of NuvaRing | | | | stroke should be reinforced. |
| contraceptives as minor and harmless. Little did | | | | This caused mixed reactions among lawyers and |
| they know that the leg cramps and pain in the | | | | concerned groups since there is an unspoken |
| calf were already the beginnings of a Nuvaring | | | | indication that drug companies and makers of |
| stroke. This condition together with blood | | | | medical devices can seek protection from lawsuits |
| clotting when untreated eventually results to | | | | under this revised ruling. How then will this new |
| massive heart attack. In worst cases, injuries | | | | ruling affect the nuvaring class action lawsuit filed |
| have resulted to death, hence the necessity to | | | | against the makers of NuvaRing? |
| file a Nuvaring class action lawsuit. Several | | | | Lawyers of the nuvaring class action lawsuit are |
| litigation lawyers have already opened their doors | | | | awaiting the outcome of a lawsuit by a certain |
| to these individuals, offering their services for | | | | Diana Levine against Wyeth, for an anti-nausea |
| free. | | | | drug that eventually led to the amputation of her |
| Before actually filing for a Nuvaring class action | | | | arm. Miss Levine’s grievance was founded on |
| lawsuit, the first authority we will turn our | | | | the premise that the drug was inadequately |
| attention to is the Food and Drug Administration | | | | labeled. Wyeth on the other hand contested that |
| (FDA). It appears that the NuvaRing was | | | | they were only adhering to FDA’s authority |
| approved by the FDA in 2001hence, whatever | | | | to approve label requirements. |
| potent features the contraceptive may contain | | | | The ruling that will be handed down by the |
| went under the scrutiny of the FDA. All | | | | Supreme Court upon this case, will determine the |
| questions regarding the propriety of the | | | | fate of the Nuvaring class action lawsuit. The |
| contraceptive as a safe device for birth control | | | | alleged victims of nuvaring stroke and cases of |
| should have passed certain standards set by the | | | | blood clots may be solved depending upon the |
| FDA. | | | | ruling of the court on the Wyeth vs. Levine case. |
| FDA released a statement to the effect that the | | | | The mere fact that the FDA issued their new |
| culprit third generation hormone known as | | | | ruling on the labeling requirements instead of a |
| desogestrel has beneficial properties of its own. | | | | directive to provide full disclosure seems to block |
| The corrective measures to be taken are not to | | | | whatever light there is at the end of the tunnel. |