{"id":79972,"date":"2025-09-28T18:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79972"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:20:43","slug":"pfizer-sued-in-us-over-contraceptive-that-women-say-caused-brain-tumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/28\/pfizer-sued-in-us-over-contraceptive-that-women-say-caused-brain-tumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer sued in US over contraceptive that women say caused brain tumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Nsb0W.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"It is estimated that the potential claim value of cases against Pfizer could be several billion dollars. Photograph: Mark Lennihan\/AP\" width=\"411\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The drugmaker Pfizer faces a US lawsuit brought on behalf of women who developed brain tumours, which they say are linked to their use of the company\u2019s contraceptive injection Depo-Provera. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/pfizer-sued-in-us-over-contraceptive-that-women-say-caused-brain-tumours\/ar-AA1Ns8xF?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68d978c68742464d929227737add6c4c&amp;ei=50\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The drugmaker Pfizer faces a US lawsuit brought on behalf of women who developed brain tumours, which they say are linked to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Pfizer-drugs.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79973,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79972\/revisions\/79973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}