Dangerous Experiment in Fetal EngineeringScience Daily (press release)Like Diethylstilbestrol (DES) -- which is now known to have caused major fertility problems and fatal cancers among those exposed in utero -- dexamethasone is a synthetic steroid.
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Research Studies and Health Issues associated to the Pregnancy Drug Diethylstilbestrol
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Diethylstilbestrol or DES is the first synthetic man made female sex hormone (oestrogen) prescribed for public use mainly between 1938 and 1971 (but not limited to those years). Used primarily to prevent miscarriage and complications in pregnancy, diethylstilbestrol was a common medication administered by doctors in North America, Europe, and Australia for more than 40 years. Delete the scoop?
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Diethylstilbestrol was also used as growth hormones and there was a huge scandal when DES was found in baby food in Germany (1980). Original post Lebensmittelskandale in Deutschland - Google trans... Delete the scoop?
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The link between DES and CCA was first found in young women who were exposed to DES before they were born, often called “DES Daughters.” As DES Daughters get older, they still may be more likely to get CCA. Delete the scoop?
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A few allopathic medicines discarded, and reasons for their withdrawal during the last 50 years are as follows: Thalidomide(1950s-1960s): withdrawn because of risk of disturbance to the growth and development of embryo or fetus. Diethylstilbestrol(1970s): because of risk of disturbance to the growth and development of embryo or fetus.
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Animal studies show that DES causes an increased risk of autoimmune disease; human studies are conflicting although self-reports by patients show an increased risk. Delete the scoop?
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A study by researchers from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Virginia Tech shows that exposure to diets high in fat or a large amount of estrogen during pregnancy can heighten the risk of breast cancer for numerous subsequent generations of female offspring, including daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters. “We know from human studies that daughters whose mothers took the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) to reduce pregnancy complications, or who had a birth weight of more than 8.8 pounds are at an increased risk of developing breast cancer. Our study suggests their offspring may also be at risk,” said Hilakivi-Clarke in the statement.
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A senate report, ”Commonwealth Contribution to Forced Adoption Policies and Practices”, released in February this year, called for a national apology, which is expected in 2013. Ms Cole, who founded the advocacy group Apologies Alliance Australia, was given a range of drugs against her will during her stay in hospital, including mind-altering barbiturates and Stilboestrol, to dry her milk. She was never told she had a right to revoke her consent to adoption in the weeks after the birth. Delete the scoop?
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Archival footage from 1989. Diethylstilbestrol (DES) was prescribed to millions of women to prevent miscarriages, however DES ended up causing severe health ... Delete the scoop?
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The danger of estrogen-like chemicals already has been well-documented with DES, or diethylstilbestrol, a drug that was prescribed to millions of women at risk of miscarriages from 1940 through 1971. Daughters and granddaughters of the pregnant women who took the potent estrogenic drug had an increased risk of endometriosis, uterine fibroids, and rare reproductive cancers. In the case of uterine fibroids, the body’s natural estrogens turn genes on and off in the smooth muscle of the uterus that allow the tumors to grow, according to researchers. Investigations are underway to determine whether estrogen-mimicking chemicals in the environment affect these same genes. Delete the scoop?
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Archival footage from late 1980s. Diethylstilbestrol (DES) was prescribed to millions of women to prevent miscarriages, however DES ended up causing severe health problems to these women and later generations. Delete the scoop?
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Check out the list of drugs which were passed as safe for human consumption on the back of animal tests and the damage which they subsequently caused. Shocking! Delete the scoop?
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Great media coverage in the UK today about Alan Turing, a mathematical genius and codebreaker born 100 years who was forced to take DES ... Delete the scoop?
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Risk factors for cervical cancer include having a mother who took the hormone drug DES (diethylstilbestrol) during pregnancy ... RIP Yvette Wilson! Delete the scoop?
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Debates in the 1930s and 1940s over the regulation of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic estrogen and the first chemical known to act as an endocrine disruptor, show how political pressures, scientific uncertainty, and ... Delete the scoop?
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Pharmaceutical companies deliberately mislead doctors into prescribing useless and even harmful meds
Writing in the Guardian, Ben Goldacre reveals the shocking truth about the drugs that doctors prescribe: thanks to aggressive manipulation from the pharmaceutical companies and passivity from regulators, doctors often don't know that the drugs were ineffective (or harmful) in a majority of their clinical trials. 
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This is really bad news especially when we are dealing with prescribing psychostimulants for young children. No reports avialable on long term effects of Ritalin, for example, which has been on the market for over forty years. Delete the scoop?
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Results of a large study unveiled in Auckland show a link between women with fertility problems and an increased risk of cancer in their children. Delete the scoop?
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DES (diethyl stilbestrol) is one of the most notorious estrogens, because studies in humans revealed that its use during pregnancy not only caused cancer, miscarriages, blood clots, etc., in the women who used it, but also caused cancer, infertility, and deformities in their children, and even in their grandchildren. (But those transgenerational effects are not unique to it.) Delete the scoop?
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New research published in the journal Nature Communications on September 11, 2012, and reviewed at the Eureka Alert web site, is the first to make a direct connection between maternal diet and the risk of developing breast cancer in successive generations of female children.
Many women take synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) to reduce pregnancy complications and some estrogen exposure is possible through food and water. Delete the scoop?
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Ms Cole is one of an unknown number of mostly young, unmarried women in NSW between the 1950s and 1970s whose children were taken from them in what is commonly referred to as ''forced adoption''. She was given a range of drugs against her will during her stay in hospital, including mind-altering barbiturates and Stilboestrol, to dry her milk. She was never told she had a right to revoke her consent to adoption in the weeks after the birth. Delete the scoop?
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Women exposed to diethylstilbestrol (DES) in utero experience a greater risk of ectopic pregnancies. Delete the scoop?
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These women are sometimes called “DES daughters.” DES is occasionally used in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. DES may also be used, at higher doses, to treat breast cancer in post-menopausal women. Delete the scoop?
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Dangerous Experiment in Fetal EngineeringScience Daily (press release)Like Diethylstilbestrol (DES) -- which is now known to have caused major fertility problems and fatal cancers among those exposed in utero -- dexamethasone is a synthetic steroid.
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Approximately 12,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, with more than 4,000 deaths attributed to the condition. Risk factors for Cervical Cancer include DES exposure ... Delete the scoop?
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One of the first worldwide drug scandal is DES (Diethylstilbestrol) affecting millions of people in countries where the anti miscarriage drug was widely prescribed to pregnant women decades ago. You may have been exposed to DES without knowing it! Delete the scoop?
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Alan Turing and his machines - by the men who knew him bestThe IndependentHe took Stilboestrol, a pill containing female hormones, but was removed from his government work and felt himself to have been placed under observation. Delete the scoop?
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Stilboestrol tablets Turing was injected with Stilboestrol – a synthesised form of oestrogen. In this era, most people who heard on the grapevine of this story probably assumed that his death typified the suicide culturally ... Delete the scoop?
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