Danger in the Ring. Marie Brenner investigated the intrauterine birth control NuvaRing, which had the potential risk of causing lethal blood clots in its users.
Vanity Fair When 24-year-old Erika Langhart—talented, beautiful, bound for law school—died on Thanksgiving Day 2011, she became one of thousands of suspected victims of the birth-control device NuvaRing. Elite army athlete Megan Henry, who survived rampant blood clots in her 20s, is another. With major suits against NuvaRing’s manufacturer, Merck, headed for trial, Marie Brenner…