Thrombosis warnings on contraceptive pills
- Title
- Thrombosis warnings on contraceptive pills
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 20 Oct 1995
- Year of production
- 1995
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- Duration
- 00:05:32
- Description
- Dominic Waghorn reports on the stream of enquiries by panicked women following health warnings by the government’s Committee on the Safety of Medecine (CSM) yesterday that seven brands of the contraceptive pill pose a higher than normal risk of thrombosis, and on the row over the warnings, based on the findings of three reports. Includes coverage of telephone enquiries to a Shepherd’s Bush family planning centre and interview with manager Gill Holden; concerned reaction from two women; comment from author of one of the reports, Canadian Professor Walter Spitzer; CSM Chairman Michael Rawlins; medical correspondent Dr Patrick Dixon.
- Contributors
- Dominic Waghorn; Patrick Dixon; Michael Rawlins; Gill Holden; Walter Spitzer
- Keywords
- Reports; Oral contraceptives; Safety; Family planning; Thrombosis; Committee on the Safety of Medicines
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