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This article relates some of the stories of women affected by side effects of the Ortho Evra birth control patch. 
 
The hormones released through the skin appear to cause blood clots which may lead to strokes, heart failure, permanent disabilities, and even death. 
 
Lawsuits against the drug company allege that it rushed the product to market for financial reasons. 
 
The company, Ortho-McNeil, part of Johnson & Johnson, is attempting to settle the lawsuits. The product remains on the market.

Women battle blood clot risk

NorthJersey.com - 5/7/2006 7:56 AM

Just before she took her nursing exam, Kristin Ribakusky-Templin noticed that the pain was getting worse. It had started two weeks earlier as a dull ache, but now it was shooting down her left leg and she couldn't walk.
 
The 20-year-old Morris County College student headed to an emergency room where doctors discovered multiple blood clots deep in the veins of her lungs and leg. Rigged to monitors for two weeks, Ribakusky-Templin -- a former black belt in karate and an avid runner -- underwent three procedures and surgery on her leg. The culprit, doctors later told her, was Ortho Evra, a small, square birth-control patch she had been dutifully sticking to her body once a week for less than two months.
 

 
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