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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10762

12 January 2013
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health
France and European Medicines Agency disagree on pill

Brussels, 11/01/2013 (Agence Europe) - The effects of using the third and fourth generation pill are arousing disparate reactions. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is reassuring and considers that women have no reason to stop taking combined contraceptive pills, including third generation. France has called for procedures to be reviewed for authorising the third and fourth generation pills, which present an increased cardio-vascular risk. In the view of Michèle Rivasi MEP (Greens/EFA,...

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