Activist, blogger and social media addict. I created my "DES Diethylstilbestrol" website and "DES Daughter Network" blog to raise awareness and share information with other women, other DES daughters & sons around the world suffering from the devastating consequences of the DES drug Di-Ethyl Stilboestrol®.
Is Eli Lilly milking cancer by making profit from cancer drugs and a substance that could increase the risk of people getting cancer?
Tens of thousands of British families are to be asked if they are victims of a drug given to pregnant women which can cause fatal illness in the second, and possibly even third, generations. Some women given the drug in the UK have already obtained compensation in America.
Giant mantas are to be added to the Convention on Migratory Species (or CMS), an intergovernmental treaty set up to help get nations working together to conserve the endangered animals that roam around our planet, ignoring the political boundaries we set up.
The fishing countries of the Atlantic can no longer ignore the shark populations they are responsible for protecting. We should be scared for sharks – not of them – and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) must do more to protect our oceans’ top predators.
DES Concerns: the Next Generation - DES, a drug given to pregnant women years ago, has health consequences over three generations. DES is not only a drug, it is a drug scandal, a cover up that nobody has heard of affecting millions of people around the world and you may be one of them. Watch this short video clip to find out more about DES.
SIGN THE PETITION: Show the UK government you support the creation of a marine conservation network to protect the UK's threatened sea life. Currently, less than one percent of our seas are protected. Proposals in the UK Marine Act plan to establish 127 Marine Conservation Zones. Public pressure is much needed to make the government realize that in order to protect our marine environments one of the best things we can do is to establish an ecological coherent network of Marine Protected Areas.
Drug companies ignored DES studies results, the FDA did NOT ban DES drugs, it continued to be used and many new doctors don't even know about Diethylstilbestrol...
According to a new study, DES, the anti-miscarriage drug used in the USA but also used in Australia and many European countries decades ago, has been linked to health problems — including breast cancer, infertility, difficult pregnancies and early menopause — in the daughters and the granddaughters of women who took it. The study suggests that one in 50 DES daughters had the chance of developing breast cancer due to their prenatal exposure to DES.
2011 marks the 40th anniversary of the DES cancer link being made at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital by Dr Arthur L Herbst. DES, a toxic and carcinogenic drug, was prescribed to millions of pregnant women for decades. The currently proven effects of prenatal exposure to DES include a rare vaginal cancer; greater risk for breast cancer; abnormal reproductive organs; infertility; high-risk pregnancies; and possible risk for testicular cancer. DES is a worldwide drug tragedy.
Dr. Robert Hoover, director of NCI’s Epidemiology and Biostatistics Programme, discusses a new study of diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug once prescribed to pregnant women. Dr. Hoover describes the history behind DES and the long-term health effects that are now known to be associated with prenatal exposure to the drug.
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