Fake Hormone For Pregnant Women Causes Real Cancer In Their
Daughters  Today in depressing: a widely-used anti-miscarriage
drug that didn't actually work has been found to cause breast
cancer, infertility, and a whole mess of other problems in the
daughters of women who used it while pregnant. The drug's crappy
effects are so far reaching that researchers also suspect that
it may cause reproductive health issues in the granddaughters of
women who used it.  The Associated Press reports that the drug,
an artificial form of estrogen called DES (diethylstilbestrol),
was often prescribed to pregnant women in pill or cream form
between 1940 and 1960. When it was discovered that the teenage
daughters of women who used it were mysteriously coming down
with a rare form of vaginal cancer, the drug was discontinued in
1971. Doctors long suspected the negative effects of the drug,
and its cumulative harm will be first documented in research to
be published in The New England Journal of Medicine this week.
As suspected,