Yaz/Yasmin and the deaths of Canadian women

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There has been a good deal of coverage about the CBC's findings from Health Canada files that the oral contraceptive Yaz/Yasmin has been linked to 23 possible deaths.  

This interview on CBC BC radio with drug researcher Barbara Mintzes gives, we feel, one of the better accounts of what is problematic about this OC and questions why it is even on the market:

Yaz/Yasmin and connection to the deaths of 23 Canadian women