Dr. Morris also designed new versions of the intrauterine contraceptive device.

The Dalkon Shield - an intrauterine contraceptive device - is gone from the market now, but not forgotten.

Most of the money would have gone into a trust to pay injury claims involving the Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine contraceptive device.

For example, millions of intrauterine contraceptive devices were exported to poor countries although they were known to cause infections and sterility.

Numerous reports have linked the use of intrauterine contraceptive devices to the development of actinomycosis of the female genital tract.

A new scientific study challenges the validity of medical research that was crucial in condemning the Dalkon Shield and other intrauterine contraceptive devices as dangerous.

The intrauterine contraceptive device, or IUD, is a small plastic or copper device that's put into the womb.

For example, current regulations of the Food and Drug Administration require women who receive intrauterine contraceptive devices to be told that an abortion may be medically necessary if they become pregnant.

Author of Marriage Manual Dr. Lehfeldt was widely known for his research and work with intrauterine contraceptive devices - IUD's - and for having invented a cervical cap.

The company's G.D. Searle unit said it was ready to discuss in court internal documents that suggest the company had safety concerns about its Copper-7 intrauterine contraceptive device even before it brought it to market.

There is no evidence that G. D. Searle & Company withheld information from the Food and Drug Administration in winning approval for its Copper-7 intrauterine contraceptive device, an F.D.A. spokeswoman said today.

The company says that the shield was no more or less dangerous than any other intrauterine contraceptive device and that, in fact, most of the pelvic inflammatory disease that occurs in women has nothing to do with the shield.

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In one of the biggest corporate liability cases, he oversaw the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust, which paid out almost $3 billion to nearly 200,000 claimants who said they had been harmed by an intrauterine contraceptive device, or IUD.

There, Minnesota's Attorney General, Hubert H. Humphrey 3d, chose Michael Ciresi, a lawyer in Minneapolis who had successfully sued the A. H. Robins Company over the Dalkon shield, an intrauterine contraceptive device.

Still, these data suggest that the incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease has, if anything, increased slightly since the Dalkon Shield and all other intrauterine contraceptive devices were removed from the market - a reflection of the increase in sexually transmitted diseases, according to Dr. Lee.

The executive vice president of the American Tort Reform Association in Washington, Blair Childs, also praised the ruling and cited the case of the Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine contraceptive device manufactured by A. H. Robins that some women argued had led to health problems.