CNN news:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/11/10/pa ... index.html
The makers of a popular birth-control patch warned millions of women Thursday that the patch exposes them to significantly higher doses of hormones and may put them at greater risk for blood clots and other serious side effects than previously disclosed.
Thursday's warning comes four months after reports that patch users die and suffer blood clots at a rate three times higher than women taking the pill.
Citing federal death and injury reports, The Associated Press found that about a dozen women, most in their late teens and early 20s, died in 2004 from blood clots believed to be related to the birth-control patch, and dozens more survived strokes and other clot-related problems.