CBS 13 (Sacramento), "Lawsuit Grows Over Birth Control Patch"

          Ortho Evra is the first and only birth control patch on the market. It's marketed to be as effective and an equal to the birth control pill, but in the lawsuits, many women say there are serious health concerns that its parent company, Johnson & Johnson knew of but purposely never disclosed.
          In her lawsuit Sanchez's attorneys say that Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, owned by Johnson and Johnson, and the FDA knew in clinical trials that women were three times more likely to develop blood clots and six times more likely to experience embolisms--or blockage--while on the patch compared to the birth control pill.
          The patch was still approved by the FDA in 2001. The lawsuit goes on to say that the company failed to disclose those serious and possibly deadly health risks and printed only that the patch had "similar" risks associated with other contraceptives such as blood clotting strokes and heart attacks. Johnson & Johnson responded to the lawsuit by saying that they won't comment on litigation.