FDA to Review Ortho Evra, Other Medicated Patch Safety
March 08, 2006The FDA will launch an exhaustive review of the safety of medicated patches such as Ortho Evra, the agency announced last week. Ortho Evra, a birth-control patch, has been linked to blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms and deep vein thrombosis (DVT). A New York fashion student died in 2004 while using the Ortho Evra patch. An autopsy showed a blood clot had traveled to her lung.