Word: fda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cattle feed after a Nader task force reported it to be carcinogenic, i.e. cancer-causing. Yet in the Morning After pill, a dose 168,000 times as great as that found in food from DES-fed cows is given to unsuspecting women. Though banned from our food, the FDA has not banned DES from our bodies. The danger, according to Dr. Herbst of Massachusetts General Hospital, is that this massive dose of DES might "stimulate the growth of already existent pre-cancerous cells." According to a fact sheet published by Advocates for Medical Information at the University of Michigan...
...FDA can sit idly by and let women endanger their lives is one story--too big to be covered here--but UHS must not be allowed to follow the negligent practice of the FDA. The Morning After pill must not be administered to Radcliffe women. Ellen Cooper...
...father pitting the benevolent forces of orgone against evil forces that he called "dor." There were ominous times. "Daddy put a radium needle in the big accumulator in the lab and everyone got sick. The lab closed, the mice died. People went away." He recalls the day when FDA agents arrived with court orders to dismantle the accumulators. The elder Reich was cooperative but bitterly sarcastic. "I could feel the glow from Daddy's head," writes Peter. He could also smell the Johnson's Baby Oil which his father always used to relieve his chronic eczema...
...FDA'S action is not unexpected. DES, an estrogen-like substance, has been used for years to prevent pregnancy in women who take it as long as 72 hours after intercourse; it has proved an effective "morning-after" pill in tests with 1,000 University of Michigan coeds (TIME, Nov. 8, 1971). The drug has also been prescribed during pregnancy to prevent miscarriage. But, used that way, it may be dangerous. Doctors have found a high incidence of vaginal cancers in the teen-age daughters of women who took the drug. The use of DBS as a growth hormone...
...FDA is aware of these hazards. It cautions against regular use of the drug as a contraceptive. It also limits the use of DBS to pregnancies resulting from rape, incest, and other situations that doctors may consider emergencies...