Word: stillbirths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to examining childhood leukemia, the team studied the instances of reproductive disorders, including miscarriage and stillbirth as well as other forms of cancer...
While they found no relation between the amount of exposure to contaminated water and miscarriage, they concluded there is a positive correlation for perinatal deaths (stillbirth and death within a week of birth), birth defects, including Down's syndrome, and chromosomal abnormalities...
...cancer in daughters born to those women, and more recently have also implicated it in genital abnormalities and infertility in sons. Now there is more unsettling news for DES daughters. When they reach childbearing age, they appear to be more vulnerable than others to miscarriage-as well as to stillbirth, premature birth and ectopic pregnancy (in which the fetus grows outside the uterus). Dr. Ann Barnes of Massachusetts General Hospital studied 1,236 women, half of them DES daughters. She reports in the New England Journal of Medicine that the risk of not achieving a full-term birth...