Word: dalkon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Health, Education and Welfare ordered more than 3,000 federally funded family planning clinics to stop prescribing a device called the Dalkon Shield, which is used by more than 2 million women. HEW also asked private physicians not to recommend it until doubts about the safety and effectiveness of the Dalkon Shield can be resolved. One recent study showed an unusually high 10% pregnancy rate among women using the Dalkon Shield (the rate for other IUDs is about 3%). More seriously, other findings indicate that pregnancy resulting from the Dalkon Shield's failure can be perilous...
...stopped short of urging present Dalkon users to switch to another method of contraception immediately. But it is unlikely that physicians will prescribe Dalkon Shields for a while. Yielding to the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the manufacturer has agreed to take the device off the market...