Recent news on Diethylstilbestrol

Legislators are right in curtailing vaccine  -  May 19, 2007
Arizona Republic,And it took a generation before it became known that diethylstilbestrol causes cancer in the daughters, sons and grandchildren of women who take it.

Prominent Lawyer David Boies to Speak at New York Law School ...  -  May 16, 2007
New York Law School (press release),She pioneered diethylstilbestrol (DES) litigation and was co-counsel in the nation’s first “DES daughter� victory, Bichler v. Lilly.

Fat rats may be evidence that we're all doomed  -  May 12, 2007
Grist Magazine,While in-utero exposure to 100 parts per billion of the estrogenic drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) makes for scrawny adult mice, exposure to just one part per

Birth control pill FAQ: Benefits, risks and choices  -  May 21, 2007
MayoClinic.comLessons learned from women who took diethylstilbestrol — a synthetic estrogen that was later linked with cancer — to prevent miscarriage in early pregnancy

Factors Increasing Breast Cancer Risk  -  May 8, 2007
Market-Day.net,DES (diethylstilbestrol) -The drug DES was given to some pregnant women inthe United States between 1940 and 1971. (It is no longer given to pregnantwomen.

The cancer question  -  May 1, 2007
HeraldNet,Lefcourt's mother was given diethylstilbestrol or DES, a hormone used to prevent miscarriages from 1940 to 1971. Today DES is known to slightly increase the

Men And Their Meat, Part 2: Less Buff Because of Broccoli?  -  Apr 16, 2007
Well Fed NetworkThis was seen during the manufacturing of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the mother of all endocrine disruptors. In 1971 it was discovered that DES could cause a

Hormones in beef linked to male fertility problems  -  Apr 14, 2007
Food Consumer,Most men in the study were born between 1949 and 1983 when diethylstilbestrol (DES) was widely used in cattle and withdrawn in 1979 because it was

Eating Beef Harms Fertility – A Cock and Bull Story?  -  Apr 9, 2007
STATS,And in terms of public policy, the situation is even more complicated, because one growth hormone is no longer in use: diethylstilbestrol (DES) was

Why pro-lifers should boycott the March of Dimes  -  Apr 1, 2007
renewamerica.us,The reproductive tracts were then implanted in laboratory mice to test the effects of diethylstilbestrol. In 1983-84, a similar experiment was carried on

Eat To Live: How beef may cut sperm count  -  Mar 28, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Use of the first synthetic hormone in cattle, diethylstilbestrol, was withdrawn in the United States in 1979. But six anabolic hormones are commonly and

A High Beef Diet During Pregnancy Linked To Lower Sperm Counts In Sons  -  Mar 28, 2007
Science Daily (press release)In 1979 the FDA did withdraw approval of the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic hormone, in cattle. (The European Union banned the use of

Don't mess with hormones, expert warns  -  Mar 28, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,Growth promoters for cattle, such as the synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES), have been used in the USA since 1954.

Beef-Eating Moms Make Sons Infertile  -  Mar 28, 2007
Fashion Monitor Toronto,Although the US banned the growth promoter diethylstilbestrol (DES) for use in cattle in 1954, other hormones such as estradiol, testosterone, progesterone,

Pregnant Women’s Beef Consumption May Affect Sperm Count of Sons  -  Mar 28, 2007
Newsinferno.com,The synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES) was used in the US since 1954, but was subsequently banned for use in cattle in 1979.

Link between beef consumption during pregnancy and reduced sperm ...  -  Mar 28, 2007
FirstScience,Growth promoters for cattle, such as the synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES), have been used in the USA since 1954. Although DES was banned for use

Mom's Diet May Affect Son's Sperm Count  -  Mar 27, 2007
Kansas City Channel.com,In 1979 the FDA did withdraw approval of the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic hormone, in cattle. The European Union banned the use of

Plain Dealer Columnist  -  Mar 11, 2007
Cleveland Plain Dealer,There was diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug used for decades to reduce miscarriages, until it was linked to cancer in the daughters of women who took it.

What's best for pets  -  Mar 4, 2007
Greeley Tribune,...diethylstilbestrol (DES). It is available now only from "compounding. pharmacists" who manufacture it for us. The advantage of this medication is.

Estrogen effect: Trying to short-circuit growth  -  Mar 18, 2007
Pioneer Press,Worse, one of the estrogens commonly used in treatment was diethylstilbestrol, or DES, linked in 1971 to vaginal and cervical cancer in the daughters of

On Public Health  -  Mar 12, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,...immune system (such as HIV), exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) and long-term contraceptive use of five years or more, according to healthywomen.org.

Chemicals May Play Role in Rise in Obesity  -  Mar 11, 2007
Washington Post,Retha R. Newbold, a developmental biologist at the NIEHS, has seen similar lifetime effects in her work with diethylstilbestrol (DES), a potent synthetic

Cervical cancer  -  Mar 6, 2007
Malaysia Star,...women whose mothers took the medicine diethylstilbestrol to prevent miscarriage. However, this is rare. women whose immunity is weakened, eg those with HIV

Pap tests best defense against cervical cancer  -  Feb 28, 2007
Aurora Beacon News,...infection with human papillomavirus, tobacco use, exposure to diethylstilbestrol before birth, HIV infection, and a weakened immune system.

Professor relates experiences, cautions women to research medicine ...  -  Feb 13, 2007
URI The Good 5 Cent Cigar (subscription),A self-described "DES (diethylstilbestrol) baby," Lisberger and her twin sister were exposed to the drug when it was administered to their mother during her

Florida considers HPV shot  -  Feb 22, 2007
Naples Daily News,DES, or diethylstilbestrol, was a synthetic form of estrogen, prescribed from 1928 until 1971 to help women who had a problem with miscarriages in the past

A parent's right to decide  -  Feb 15, 2007
Roanoke Times,Likewise DES (diethylstilbestrol), which was given to pregnant women between 1938 and 1971, is now associated with cancers of the uterus and cervix in the

COLUMN: It's always something: chemicals weakening love-making tools  -  Feb 7, 2007
USD Volante Online (subscription),In the 1940s through the 1970s, the EDC diethylstilbestrol (DES) was given to pregnant women to prevent miscarriages. Unfortunately, as both its users and

The Law Firm of Blumenthal & Markham Announces a Proposed Class ...  -  Feb 6, 2007
Lawfuel (press release),...by synthetic chemicals, including but not limited to diethylstilbestrol (DES) and warfarin (or coumadin), which is the active chemical in bloodthinners.

Synthetic chemicals may disrupt reproduction  -  Feb 6, 2007
Contra Costa Times,Researchers have documented the effect of another hormone disrupter, DES, or Diethylstilbestrol, a wonder drug given from the 1940s into the 1970s to

Synthetic chemicals can affect offspring  -  Feb 4, 2007
Daily Review Online,There's another example out there, however: DES, or diethylstilbestrol, a wonder drug given with the best of intentions from the 1940s to the 1970s to

Scientists expose body toxin risks  -  Feb 4, 2007
Inside Bay Area,Another example: DES, or diethylstilbestrol, a drug given in the 1940s to the 1970s to pregnant women prone to have miscarriages. The mothers were fine,

Mother's ruin: The facts about DES  -  Jan 30, 2007
Independent,DES (diethylstilbestrol) is known as the "silent Thalidomide". The synthetic oestrogen was developed in England in 1938. It wasn't patented and went on to

Cancer screenings offered  -  Jan 30, 2007
SalemNews.net,...a diet low in fruits and vegetables and having a mother who took the drug diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage.

Estrogen's history as a growth limiter  -  Jan 15, 2007
Los Angeles Times,Worse, one of the estrogens commonly used in treatment was diethylstilbestrol, or DES, linked in 1971 to vaginal and cervical cancer in the daughters of

National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month  -  Jan 9, 2007
KTEN,If you have risk factors, such as diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposure before birth, HIV infection, weakened immune system, or chronic steroid use,

Bisphenol-A may trigger human breast cancer  -  Dec 18, 2006
Food Consumer,Early studies of nonsteroidal estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) show that those whose mothers received the chemical during pregnancies between 1948 and

Bisphenol A May Trigger Human Breast Cancer  -  Dec 6, 2006
Chemical & Engineering NewsOne study shows that the daughters of women who took the potent synthetic nonsteroidal estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) during their pregnancies between

Q&A: Cervical Cancer and HPV Testing  -  Dec 1, 2006
CancerWise...of cervical cancer, a weakened immune system due to certain illnesses or conditions or were exposed to the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) before birth.

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Test Use Growing  -  Dec 1, 2006
CancerWiseWomen at increased risk of cervical cancer – Anyone having a personal history of cervical cancer, weakened immune system or diethylstilbestrol (DES)

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