Scandal at the FDA: board members with drug maker ties voted to approve drug that’s killing women

‘An investigation by the Washington Monthly and the British Medical Journal determined that at least four members of an FDA advisory board which voted to approve a drug used in the birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin had either done work for the drugs’ manufacturer or received research funds from the manufacturer.

Though the four committee members disclosed their ties to the FDA, the FDA decided that the ties did not matter and did not make the disclosures public.

Tragically, the drugs the committee endorsed have been killing the women who take them.’

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