Depo-Provera is an injectable form of birth control manufactured by Pfizer that contains a synthetic hormone, medroxyprogesterone acetate, which prevents pregnancy by stopping ovulation, thickening ...

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If you’ve experienced serious side effects after using Depo-Provera, you are not alone. The birth control injection has been linked to a range of adverse health effects, including bone density loss, ...

If you have used Depo-Provera, you may have heard recent reports suggesting a potential link between this birth control injection and an increased risk of brain tumors known as meningiomas. It is ...

This week, the FDA approved a label change on Depo Provera, requiring its maker, Pfizer, to warn women about links between use of the birth control injection and brain tumors known as meningiomas.

When many women turned to Depo-Provera as a convenient birth control option, they had no idea it might carry life-altering risks. After years of injections, some began experiencing troubling symptoms ...

I work in several family-planning clinics serving low-income/uninsured women, many of whom have been on medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera) for more than 10 years. Should we be doing bone density ...

The court in the Depo-Provera MDL recently struck a sensible compromise to provide early disclosure of pertinent information about the plaintiffs’ claims without eviscerating a plaintiff’s rights and ...

The plaintiffs bar has argued that courts can only preempt prescription pharmaceutical state law failure-to-warn claims when the FDA formally rejects a proposed label change. Faced with that exact ...

Depo Provera: The Food and Drug Administration approved a label change on Friday for Pfizer’s birth control injection, Depo-Provera, alerting patients to the risk of meningioma, a tumor that develops ...