DES - The Biggest Human Experiment Ever

• DES (diethylstilbestrol) experiments in animals were known to cause gynecological anomalies since the 1930s but were ignored by drug and pharmaceutical companies.
• Animals exposed experimentally to DES in utero experienced pregnancy dysfunction due to uterine malformation, metaplasia and dysplasia.
• The presence of early genital abnormalities in the offspring of DES exposed women, including feminization of males and masculinization of females, were ignored by the drug companies.
• DES was used in pregnant women in the 1950s and 1960s without proper testing.
• DES never actually prevented miscarriages.
• DES was never patented, yet was produced by 300 drug companies and was given to mothers in super high doses.
• DES was known to be ineffective since 1954 but was prescribed anyway - the drug companies ignored relevant studies from 1939 to 1949 that cited the dangers of DES.
• DES should never have been put on the market because it never worked and caused irreparable harm to the millions of women and children exposed to it.
• Aaron M. Levine and Associates has been performing diethylstilbestrol associated research since the 1980s and specializes in DES litigation.

The bottom line is that diethylstilbestrol should never have been placed on the market. The drug manufacturers who jumped on the diethylstilbestrol bandwagon either never made the computations or didn't care, but the recommended dosage given to pregnant women was the equivalent of the estrogenic effect of 55,666 birth control pills.

This ad appeared in a major medical journal in 1957. The small print at the bottom reads: "Recommended for routine prophylaxis in ALL pregnancies... 96 per cent live delivery with desPLEX in one series of 1200 patients - bigger and stronger babies, too. No gastric or other side effects with desPLEX - in either high or low dosage."

There was absolutely no scientific support for this type of propaganda:

You can learn the latest information at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's diethylstilbestrol information center. USA Today recounts the history of diethylstilbestrol and the health problems it created in its story "Hidden toll of DES, a generation later."

The following Web sites may be of further interest to you:

National Women's Health Network	www.nwhn.org/
Resolve (National Infertility Organization)	www.resolve.org
American Society for Reproductive Medicine	www.asrm.org
The American Surrogacy Center, Inc.	www.surrogacy.com
Centers for Disease Control's Reproductive Health Information Source	www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/
DES Action	www.desaction.org
The DES Cancer Network	www.descancer.org

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