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...cover pending and future claims filed by women who bought Dalkon Shields between 1971 and 1974. The firm stopped marketing the product in the latter year, following the reported death of a user. Since then, more than 12,000 people have filed suits claiming that the Dalkon Shield causes pelvic infections, sterility and infected miscarriages. The device, which was bought by some 2.9 million women in the U.S., has since been linked to 20 deaths from uterine infection. By the end of last year Robins had settled an estimated 8,300 claims at a cost of $332 million in compensatory...
...that few people have ever heard of: chlamydia. This disease, named for the tiny bacterium (Chlamydia trachomatis) that causes it, strikes between 3 million and 10 million Americans each year. The bug is also a hidden agent in as many as one out of every two cases of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), a painful, sometimes sterilizing infection that affects about 1 million American women each year. Chlamydia, like herpes, is rapidly becoming the bane of the middle class; up to 10% of all college students are afflicted with it. Says Dr. Mary Guinan of the Centers for Disease Control...
...Richmond represents one of the most extensive product-warning campaigns in history. The company is attempting to alert women in the U.S. who are still using the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device. Produced from 1970 to 1974, the I.U.D.s have been blamed for thousands of cases of severe pelvic infections, sterility and other maladies. By last week at least 400 women had followed the ad's advice by going to their doctors to have the shield removed, and 11,000 have called Robins for more information. The company has offered to pay the bill for removal...
...where fertilization normally occurs. If they are blocked or damaged or frozen in place by scar tissue, the egg will be unable to complete its journey. To examine the tubes, a doctor uses X rays or a telescope-like instrument called a laparoscope, which is inserted directly into the pelvic area through a small, abdominal incision. Delicate microsurgery, and, more recently, laser surgery, sometimes can repair the damage successfully. According to Beverly Freeman, executive director of Resolve, a national infertility-counseling organization, microsurgery can restore fertility in 70% of women with minor scarring around their tubes. But for those whose...
Doctors place much of the blame for the epidemic on liberalized sexual attitudes, which in women have led to an increasing occurrence of genital infections known collectively as pelvic inflammatory disease. Such infections scar the delicate tissue of the fallopian tubes, ovaries and uterus. Half of these cases result from chlamydia, a common venereal disease, and 25% stem from gonorrhea...