Women Battle Blood Clot Risk ; Birth-Control Patch Lawsuits On the Rise

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Just before she took her nursing exam, Kristin Ribakusky-Templin noticed that the pain was getting worse. It had started two weeks earlier as a dull ache, but now it was shooting down her left leg and she couldn't walk.

The 20-year-old Morris County College student headed to an emergency room where doctors discovered multiple blood clots deep in the veins of her lungs and leg. Rigged to monitors for two weeks, Ribakusky-Templin a former black belt in karate and an avid runner underwent three procedures and surgery on her leg.

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Women Battle Blood Clot Risk ; Birth-Control Patch Lawsuits On the Rise

The culprit, doctors later told her, was Ortho Evra, a small, square birth-control patch she had been dutifully sticking to her body once a week for less than two months.

"I was really afraid I was going to die," the Randolph woman said. "The doctors kept coming in not knowing what was wrong."

Ribakusky-Templin is one of dozens of women, husbands and par...

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