
Addressing a public health issue from a legal perspective, 2015 In April 1970, Dr Arthur Herbst and his colleagues published six case studies of gynaecological cancers (specifically, clear-cell adenocarcinoma) in young girls aged 15 to 22 in a prestigious American medical journal. The following year, the same doctors published a second article proving that these …
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Vidéo publiée le 1er septembre 2016 par l’Association Réseau DES FRANCE DISTILBENE

The harms of taking DES during pregnancy last for decades and affect future generations

Alan Turing was obliged to undertake injections of DES intended to render him asexual

Fifty milligrams of diethylstilbestrol (Stilbestrol®) a day for 5 days appears to be effective

Some of the Diethylstilbestrol failures apparently resulted in ectopic gestation

Kenyan women using animal abortion pills

The responsibility of journalists to tell the public the true story is so crucial

DES was used for decades as a postcoital contraceptive, and it was even endorsed by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Selected Items, from the FDA Drug Bulletin, May 1973