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Depo-Provera Brain Tumor Litigation: All-Female Legal Team Takes on Devastating Female Health Issue
PR News Wire - KXAN Austin ^ | Jan 16, 2025 | Pritzker Hageman, P.A.

Posted on 01/17/2025 12:05:13 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

National personal injury law firm Pritzker Hageman has assembled an all-female legal team to pursue litigation on behalf of women who developed meningioma tumors after using Depo-Provera birth control injections.

Compelling scientific research shows that the extremely high doses of the synthetic progestin hormone in Depo-Provera can stimulate the growth of meningiomas.

Depo-Provera was approved for contraceptive use in the United States in 1992, but studies going back to 1983 suggested that levels of synthetic progestin hormones found in Depo-Provera can bind to receptors on meningiomas, accelerating their growth. While these tumors are often called "benign," their location means they can compress the brain and spinal cord and lead to severe complications.

Pritzker Hageman's Depo-Provera litigation aims to expose the fact that Pfizer and other companies failed to adequately warn women of the meningioma risk.

"We want women to have awareness that users of Depo-Provera are at risk," Vanden Heuvel stated.

"The longer you take it, the more likely it is that you would develop a brain tumor," Penner added.

The potential number of women affected is substantial. In 2020, over 2 million prescriptions for Depo-Provera were written in the U.S.

(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; birthcontrol; contraception; depo; depoprovera; female; lawsuit; maha; medicine; pfizer; tumor; women
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and team cannot ascend to power soon enough.
1 posted on 01/17/2025 12:05:13 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Strange. Not seeing a definition of women in the article.


2 posted on 01/17/2025 12:10:56 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I guess they’re ok with a meningioma as long as they’re not burdened by children. So WHO CARES?


3 posted on 01/17/2025 12:11:46 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

That they needed to point out it was an all female team pretty much means it is doomed to fail as the sex of the team is obviously more important than actual legal competence.


4 posted on 01/17/2025 12:26:24 PM PST by Skwor
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Don’t get your hopes up about RFK:

https://nypost.com/2025/01/17/us-news/bill-gates-frankly-impressed-after-3-hour-dinner-with-trump/


5 posted on 01/17/2025 12:28:46 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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6 posted on 01/18/2025 12:42:28 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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