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...collection amassed by the plaintiffs in the Dalkon Shield case, a series of lawsuits against the makers of a flawed contraceptive that lasted for almost a quarter-century, is one of the largest such collections in the country...
...restless horses and men saddling up to enact a fantasy of real men's work. At the end, machismo served and calm restored, the handsome hero lights up...his Marlboro. Why am I not surprised? Developing nations have long served as dumping grounds for everything from banned pesticides to Dalkon Shields. We've got to invent mechanisms for ensuring that multinational corporations maintain the same environmental and social ethics abroad that they are forced to practice at home. ILA L. ABERNATHY, Coordinator St. Michael's Guatemala Project Tucson, Ariz...
...University of Iowa law professor Michael Green cautions, "It's only when you accumulate a fair amount of evidence that you can confidently conclude that there is no problem. The plaintiffs may be wrong about breast implants, but they were right about asbestos, and they were right about the Dalkon Shield...
DIED. DR. HUGH J. DAVIS, 69, developer of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth-control device, which was recalled in 1984 after being blamed for at least 18 deaths; on Gibson Island, Maryland...
...cynic might see the silicone-implant business as another malfeasance on the scale of the Dalkon Shield (which had a tendency to cause devastating infections), DES (which could cause cancer in the user's offspring) or the high-estrogen birth-control pill (which was also rushed to market after hasty and dubious testing). A cynic might point to the medical profession's long habit of exploiting the female body for profit -- from the 19th century custom of removing the ovaries as a cure for "hysteria" to our more recent traditions of unnecessary hysterectomies and caesareans. A cynic might conclude that...