elizabeth cohen watching medical matters for us today. this is a big class action lawsuit. can you walk me through this? the packaging was backwards so people were taking the pills properly but the pills weren t being given to them properly, is that what essentially happened here? right, that s effectively what happened. sometimes you re taking a pill with a hormone in it but then there are placebo pills for one of the weeks. women were taking placebo pill, meaning sugar pills, for at times when they should have been taking hormone pills and vice versa. that is not effective birth control. the foreign polida put out a wa this and there was a voluntary recall. now these women are suing. it s interesting, these are called wrongful pregnancy lawsuits. people have had varying degrees of success with them. sometimes people sue, for example, for the cost of raising the child all the way to age 18. it s pretty tough to recover
at school. a mother received a call asking if her son was coming to class. what do you mean is he coming to school today? i put him on the bus. your heart sinks. they found the boy in the empty bus garage. the driver has been placed on administrative leave while they investigate what happened. a study stuths when it comes to migraine treatments yeour expectations effect your medications. patients were given a placebo pill or real meditation while the real meds worked better than the dummy pills those who took the placebos still reported less pain then when they left their migraines untreated. knitted works landed people
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