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Re: OrthoEvra patches From: Atkinson, Samuel M (ATKINSONS@mail.ecu.edu) Thu Jul 21 16:08:48 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: RModugno@aol.com: "US Health system - no value for money" Previous message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Our pernicious legal system" Maybe in reply to: Joanne Bulley, MD: "OrthoEvra patches" My best read of an article was that a group in Montreal did a "Meta Analysis" of 14 previous papers. It compared patch to women not on any medication. I do not think control for weight was in it. Thus a doubling of the risk is just that. 1 per 100,000 doubled is 2 per 100,000..the same risk that exists with the pill in a comparable group. This is not news...just another group of academics trying to get a cheap publication and attention without doing any real work. ________________________________ From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net on behalf of Joanne Bulley, MD -- ________________________________ Sent: Thu 7/21/2005 1:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L Subject: OrthoEvra patches What do y'all make of the announcement about OrthoEvra and doubling the risk of fatal clots? Has anyone seen the data other than what was in the local newspaper last night? It was an AP story - so others must have seen it. If a patient has headaches do you stop OCPs or the Patch or the Ring? Does it make a difference to you if the HA is in the placebo week or during and active week? -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA "Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is." - Duke Ellington, American jazz artist (1899-1974). Next message: RModugno@aol.com: "US Health system - no value for money" Previous message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Our pernicious legal system" Maybe in reply to: Joanne Bulley, MD: "OrthoEvra patches"

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