Comment by Andrea on November 17, 2009 at 1:58pm

I'd never heard of DES before today. I rather doubt my mother used it with me or my sibs as we are military brats and prenatal care was poor at best. It sounds like so many things that the FDA really dropped the ball on. Thalidimide created the flipper babies in Europe so the US outlawed all uses of it, but it is a highly effective drug in reducing the symptoms of Alzheimer's...probably one of the best ever. Instead of outlawing it, there should have been a stipulation that it could never be prescribed to any pre-menopausal female.

One of the biggest mistakes the FDA made was to legalize aspartame. That has well known effects on the brain and I must wonder if the seeming increase in health issues in the last 25 years is caused by that.

Comment by linda carraway on November 17, 2009 at 2:33pm

YES MILITARY BRATS are at great risk. This drug was routinlly given at most bases, these women were guinea pigs for this drug. Hopefully your moms still around you might ask her if she was given anything for morning sickness or to stop early labor. Up until 1971 it was given when women complained,the drs just wanted to shut them up I guess!!! Thats the problem with this its been pushed to the back burner and no one talks about it anymore.I have asked so many women and no one has ever been asked at their gyno app. and they have no clue what it is. My sister and her oldest daughter have malformed pancreatic ducts and have both had miscarriages and I had a still born. I believe alot of the cancers in young women in the last 5o yrs is attributed to this and no ones putting it together. I have written to the CDC for yrs with no reply. Start asking ??'s I bet no one has heard of it!!!! Blessing to you linda

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