Over the last several years, stories of young women, many of them athletes (here, here), suffering from dangerous and sometimes deadly blood
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I had a stroke from hormonal birth control at the age of 28. Prior to my stroke, I didn’t think much about
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Over the better part of the 2015, we were collecting data about birth control induced blood clots. This work was part of
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I recently began a new project tackling the economics of testing women for clotting disorders prior to receiving prescriptions for hormonal contraception.
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When you write about hormonal birth control, it becomes a sort of self-perpetuating torture. Women who have been injured frequently reach out
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Sometimes I just want to say stop the excuses, stop the rationalizations, just stop defending the pharmaceutical industry and those giving hormonal
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When I had a stroke at age 28, my doctors did some tests and found that I have a fairly common clotting
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Pulmonary emboli are notoriously difficult to diagnose clinically, especially in otherwise healthy young women. The early signs include such nondescript symptoms as
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