Bruce Bespalow Dan, M.D. (December 20, 1946 – September 6, 2011) [1] was one of the American researchers with the Toxic Shock Syndrome Task Force who established the link between toxic shock syndrome and the use of tampons. [2]
Dan died September 6, 2011, in Baltimore, Maryland, from complications stemming from a bone marrow transplant received to cure leukemia. He is buried in Garden of Remembrance Cemetery, Clarksburg, Maryland. [3]
Dr. Bruce Dan, who as a leading federal researcher helped establish a link between the life-threatening disease toxic shock syndrome and the use of tampons, prompting a major shift in the way tampons are produced, died Tuesday in Baltimore.
Bruce Bespalow Dan, M.D. (December 20, 1946 – September 6, 2011) [1] was one of the American researchers with the Toxic Shock Syndrome Task Force who established the link between toxic shock syndrome and the use of tampons. [2]
Dan died September 6, 2011, in Baltimore, Maryland, from complications stemming from a bone marrow transplant received to cure leukemia. He is buried in Garden of Remembrance Cemetery, Clarksburg, Maryland. [3]
Dr. Bruce Dan, who as a leading federal researcher helped establish a link between the life-threatening disease toxic shock syndrome and the use of tampons, prompting a major shift in the way tampons are produced, died Tuesday in Baltimore.