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Sketch of a Dalkon Shield IUD.
The Dalkon Shield was a contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD) developed by the Dalkon Corporation and marketed by the A.H. Robins Company. The Dalkon Shield was found to cause severe injury to a disproportionately large percentage of women, which eventually led to numerous lawsuits, in which juries awarded millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages.
DalkonShield was a contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD) developed by the Dalkon Corporation and marketed by the A.H. Robins Company. The Dalkon Shield...
of birth control dates from the 1800s. A previous model known as the Dalkonshield was associated with an increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease...
people each year. A type of intrauterine device (IUD) known as the Dalkonshield led to increased rates of PID in the 1970s. Current IUDs are not associated...
abortions in women with the DalkonShield in place, seven of whom had died. Robins stopped international sales of the DalkonShield in April 1975. Tatum developed...
Washington Post (1958–1988). He exposed such scandals as thalidomide and the DalkonShield. Since 2004 he has been a Senior Adviser to Nieman Watchdog. In 1955...
Cosmetic Act Thalidomide led to the 1962 Kefauver Harris Amendments DalkonShield led to the 1976 Medical Device Amendments Bjork-Shiley Heart Valves...
experienced sterilization abuse when she was rendered sterile with the DalkonShield, an intrauterine device that was marketed despite being found to be...
Junkie adopted Swindled's episode "The Contraceptive," covering the DalkonShield. In a profile of Crime Junkie host Ashley Flowers, Laura Barcella of...
acquired A.H. Robins, makers of Robitussin, ChapStick, Dimetapp, and the DalkonShield merging it into its Whitehall unit to establish its Whitehall-Robins...
DalkonShield. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 9780394548463. Abstract: Morton Mintz (January 15, 1986). "A Crime Against Women: A.H. Robins and the Dalkon Shield"...
(less than 0.7%). A previous model of the intrauterine device (the Dalkonshield) was associated with an increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease;...
ISBN 978-0896080386. "The Charge: Gynocide", investigative journalism about the DalkonShield in the third world, Mother Jones, November/December issue, 1979 "Making...
classification for medical devices based on comparative risk. In 1976, the DalkonShield intrauterine device injured at least 900,000 women in the United States...
contraceptives. Specifically, Pathfinder continued to distribute the DalkonShield internationally after it had been withdrawn from the U.S. market due...
Health Action to co-ordinate claims by women who had been injured by the DalkonShield IUD. Coney was the co-founder of the feminist magazine Broadsheet, which...
Health (1983) Health Kick-Back (1984) Who Cares? (4 episodes) (1985) DalkonShield: The Missing Women (1985) Ten Million (2 series) (1985) Viewpoint '87:...
ranging from corporate irresponsibility in the A.H. Robins Company's DalkonShield intrauterine device case, to biographies of public figures, including...
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