Anita L. Nelson, MD, is a professor in department of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. She also is a senior author of the textbook Contraceptive Technology (Thomson Reuters) and coeditor of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Practical Guide for Primary Care (Humana).
Friends of mine who are young enough to need birth control but old enough to remember the notorious Dalkon Shield—a…
