Кesearcher says banned pregnancy drug impacts fetal immune system
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- A synthetic estrogendiethylstilbestrol (DES)prescribed to women in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s to prevent miscarriages had serious, untoward effects in daughters of these women, including the development of a rare type of cancer of the uterus. There has been renewed interest in light of an Oct. 6 report in the New England Journal of Medicine documenting lifelong health complications facing daughters of women given DES.
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