A one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills is displayed in a file photo. Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo
Bayer Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay a $9 million settlement to resolve a long-standing Canadian class-action lawsuit filed by women who developed blood clots and gallbladder disease after using Yasmin or Yaz birth control.
The settlement was finalized in a Saskatchewan court this spring after roughly 15 years of litigation on behalf of the women who became ill or died after using one of the popular contraceptives.
