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Company’s defense
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Warped
United Press International
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A
doctor denies accusations by
Procter & Gamble that he altered
a death certificate so the family of
a young woman could blame her
death on Rely tampons and claim
millions in damages from P&G.
Dr. John Jacobs, who treated
Patricia Kehm for toxic shock
syndrome linked to the use of
Rely tampons, told a federal jury
Tuesday a P&G attorney falsely
accused him of altering Kehm’s
death certificate to list TSS as the
cause of death.
Jacobs’ testimony in the civil
wrongful-death trial brought by
Kehm’s husband appeared to
damage P&G’s defense that
either Kehm never had the dis
ease or it was caused by some
thing other than Rely. Her fami
ly’s suit seeks more than $30 mil
lion in damages.
Kehm, 25, mother of two
young daughters, used Rely tam
pons for the first time Sept. 2,
1980. She died during emergen
cy treatment at Mercy Hospital
four days later.
Dr. Bruce Dan, who headed
the TSS task force at the Center
for Disease Control in Atlanta,
emphatically stated in earlier tes
timony that Kehm was infected
with TSS from her tampon. P&G
said she could have been infected
by an intrauterine device.
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P&G attorney Tim White also
said doctors initially were uncer
tain what caused Kehm’s death.
He said Jacobs did not list TSS on
her charts until after he was con
tacted by an attorney for the
Kehm family.
■S/iec/5 dangerous, study shows
Farmers’ lungs menaced
Kehm attorney Tom Riley
asked Jacobs whether the doctor
had been coerced into changing
the records.
“No,” Jacobs said. “It is abso
lutely false. I did not change the
diagnosis on the death certifi-
United Press International
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Far
mers who work in animal con
finement buildings run the risk
of getting respiratory ailments
similar to the lung diseases of
coal miners and textile workers,
research shows.
A six-year study at the Uni
versity of Iowa showed more
than 70 percent of the people
who work in confinement sheds
have symptoms of respiratory
ailments.
Kelley Donham, who heads
the school’s Preventive Medicine
and Environmental Health
program, said the lung dis
orders pose a widespread prob
lem because about 70 percent of
hogs raised in the Midwest are in
confinement.
“About 30,000 different hog
operations in Iowa use these
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