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The maker of NuvaRing® is being sued by the widower of a 32-year-old woman who died after developing a fatal blood clot while using the popular contraceptive.
Untimely Death
Jackie Kelly Bozicev, a young mother of two, collapsed in her home on December 7, 2007. Doctors at a local hospital gave her a clot-busting drug and tried to resuscitate her, but to no avail.
According to her autopsy, Bozicev had developed a blood clot that lodged in her lungs and caused acute blockage. She had been using NuvaRing® for about six months, and her husband, Robert, said she was healthy.
“A formation of a clot like this is really uncommon in a woman of her age,” said attorney Carmen Scott.
The Lawsuit
The lawsuit claims that the maker of NuvaRing® failed to properly warn about the risk of blood clots and is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages from Organon BioSciences NV and Schering-Plough Corp.
NuvaRing® has been on the market since 2002 and is inserted vaginally. It contains a form of progestin that has been linked to a twofold risk of blood clots.
(Source: Newsday)
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