Word: dalkon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take up to $50 million and as long as 15 years to move a contraceptive from the laboratory to approval for use in the U.S. What really frightens pharmaceutical companies, however, is the threat of liability suits, like the legal barrage that drove A.H. Robins into bankruptcy after its Dalkon Shield intrauterine device was found to have damaging side effects. No wonder that of the nine major U.S. firms that were conducting contraceptive research 20 years ago, only one is still doing...