The legal landscape surrounding Depo-Provera, a long-acting injectable birth control, has entered a pivotal phase. With the growing number of lawsuits alleging that the drug caused serious brain ...

THURSDAY, Dec. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new safety warning for Depo-Provera, a widely used birth control shot made by Pfizer, alerting patients ...

Advertisements on the TV news lately have been citing a 2004 lawsuit against Pfizer (where have I heard that name?) over potentially causing a form of brain cancer with its readily available ...

A mother brought her 13-year-old daughter to our clinic, requesting that the child be given medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera). The child stated that she is not sexually active and does not want the ...

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 ...

Women in America and the United Kingdom are taking legal action against Pfizer and other birth control producers after a study indicated that injectable contraceptives were found to cause brain tumors ...

The costs of an intracranial meningioma diagnosis can be substantial. Not only can this diagnosis lead to a lifetime of medical bills and other costs, but it can drastically reduce patients’ quality ...

What You Need to Know Pfizer is petitioning the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to designate a mass tort for litigation over Depo-Provera. There have only been two Depo-Provera lawsuits filed in ...

A Clark County mother has filed a lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente Northwest and six of its physicians that alleges they failed to warn her daughter of the potential risk of brain tumors associated ...

The choice of safe and highly effective contraception for women who have special medical conditions can pose tremendous challenges. Viral hepatitis such as hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major public ...