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...austere but imposing ads currently appearing in newspapers and magazines. The $4 million media blitz by the pharmaceutical maker A.H. Robins of 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...
...issue was Lord's treatment of three top A.H. Robins Co. executives who appeared in his courtroom last February to sign a $4.6 million settlement of seven lawsuits involving the pharmaceutical firm's Dalkon Shield. The intrauterine birth-control device, which was on the market in the U.S. from 1970 to 1974, has been linked to severe pelvic infections and septic abortions; the Shield is also alleged to have caused 18 deaths. Ten thousand women have filed lawsuits and claims against the company, which has thus far paid out $220 million in compensation and $13 million in punitive...
...medical malpractice": the duty of a physician to warn former patients of any newly discovered danger in drugs or devices that the doctor prescribed in previous years. The magazine article dredges up a little noted 1978 California Court of Appeals decision called Tresemer vs. Barke, which involved the notorious Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. Within two years after Donna Sue Tresemer had a shield inserted in 1972, researchers were learning that the device could be dangerous, but Dr. Morton Barke never contacted Tresemer to warn her. When she finally did have it removed in 1975, she suffered complications that, her lawyer...
Named for Mary Harris Jones, a turn-of-the-century labor organizer, Mother Jones pursues corporate miscreants with a vigor that would have made her proud. It has linked Bechtel Corp. with the CIA (a charge denied by the company), exposed the dangers of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine contraceptive device, and in 1977 was the first publication to allege that Ford chose not to redesign a faulty fuel system in its 1971-76 Pintos. Just four years old, Mother Jones won its third National Magazine Award in April for a story about how products banned in the U.S. as unsafe...
...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...