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• DES Side Effects May Cause Neurodevelopmental Problems For Generations: Study

  June 21, 2018

  Martha Garcia

  A new study indicates that the side effects of the banned drug, DES, may have multigenerational side effects, increasing the risk of ADHD in the grandchildren of women who took the drug during pregnancy.

• BPA Breast Cancer Risk Evaluated By New Study

  March 12, 2014

  Martha Garcia

  The findings of a new study link BPA to an increased risk of breast cancer.

• Breast Cancer Lawsuit Links Illness to Mother’s DES Use in Pregnancy

  March 3, 2014

  Irvin Jackson

  A woman says her mother's exposure to DES while she was pregnant led to her breast cancer, and is suing the manufacturers decades after the drug was removed from the market.

• DES Breast Cancer Lawsuit Filed Over Pregnancy Drug

  January 11, 2012

  Staff Writers

  A Boston woman is suing drug makers who manufactured the discontinued pregnancy drug DES (diethylstilbestrol), alleging that the drug her...

• Pregnancy Drug is Causing Grown Daughters to Face Risk of Cancer, Infertility

  October 6, 2011

  Staff Writers

  The daughters of women given diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug commonly used decades ago to prevent miscarriages and birth defects, are...