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- Dalkon Shield was a contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD) developed by the Dalkon Corporation and marketed by the A.H. Robins Company. The Dalkon Shield...
- experienced sterilization abuse when she was rendered sterile with the Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine device that was marketed despite being found to...
- form of birth control dates from the 1800s. A previous model known as the Dalkon shield was ****ociated with an increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease...
- uterus (less than 0.7%). A previous model of the intrauterine device (the Dalkon shield) was ****ociated with an increased risk of pelvic inflammatory disease;...
- abortions in women with the Dalkon Shield in place, seven of whom had died. Robins stopped international sales of the Dalkon Shield in April 1975. Tatum...
- and Cosmetic Act Thalidomide led to the 1962 Kefauver Harris Amendments Dalkon Shield led to the 1976 Medical Device Amendments Bjork-Shiley Heart Valves...
- contraception such as defective intrauterine devices (IUD)s, particularly the Dalkon Shield. Abortion is the intentional termination of pregnancy, as compared...
- Dalkon Shield. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 9780394548463. Abstract: Morton Mintz (January 15, 1986). "A Crime Against Women: A.H. Robins and the Dalkon Shield"...
- Crime Junkie adopted Swindled's episode "The Contraceptive," covering the Dalkon Shield. In a profile of Crime Junkie host Ashley Flowers, Laura Barcella...
- Washington Post (1958–1988). He exposed such scandals as thalidomide and the Dalkon Shield. Since 2004 he has been a Senior Adviser to Nieman Watchdog. In 1955...