Kathleen Thoren sits in bed at Sweetwater County Hospital in Rock Springs, Wyo., in this handout photo from Sept. 4, 2004, with her new baby, Brandy, in the arms of her daughter, Kelsey, almost 2 years old, with husband, Tom, and son, Mikey, 7. The new mother died just before Thanksgiving that fall after days of agonizing headaches brought on by hormones released into her body from a birth control patch. (AP Photo/Courtesy Erika Klein-File)
AP - The Food and Drug Administration warned users of the popular Ortho Evra birth control patch that they are being exposed to more hormones, and are therefore at higher risk of blood clots and other serious side effects, than previously disclosed. |