Victims of the synthetic drug Diethylstilbestrol have been in conflict with pharmaceutical companies for forty years to force authorities and companies to set up a fund to compensate them for the suffering caused by the drug before it is forbidden to sell it, according to a report in the French magazine L'Onville Observateur.
According to the magazine, the drug, known by its acronym "DES", was mistakenly used as a result of its very similar effect to the natural female hormone "Estradiol", until the mid-seventies.
The Lonville Observator report shows that doctors have long prescribed it to prevent pregnant women from certain diseases and risks such as abortion, premature birth, etc., before it was discontinued after it was found to cause serious health problems in females whose mothers took during pregnancy, including breast, vaginal and abortion cancers, Several other healthy.
Today, 80,000 people in France alone suffer the consequences of their mothers' use of the drug, and Lunonville Observer interviewed the victim Isabelle Grange, who pleads on behalf of these victims, known as DES victims, to seek redress from the French Ministry of Health.
In this country, the drug, originally produced in America, was banned only in 1977, after doctors prescribed it to 200,000 mothers, and the current victims - mostly females - were born to mothers who ate the poison, and their daughters now pay the price. For the magazine.
According to the report, this drug for the second generation has caused many genital abnormalities, premature births, ectopic pregnancies or cancers. The rate of infertility in DES girls was 30%, compared to 5% in all women, and the number of abortions was estimated at 25%. In addition, about 50% of these women give birth prematurely. Abnormalities in the reproductive system (especially the presence of a T-shaped uterus).
It does not seem that the conflict between these victims with the government and pharmaceutical companies will lead to a quick result, as these companies pay a large amount of money to their lawyers, while the victims have yet to pay lawyers fees of their own money.
Of course, given the aging of the case, the complainants find it difficult to provide the doctors' prescriptions they had prescribed to their mothers to prove that they had already taken the drug, which judges prescribe to link the disorders of the grandchildren to the drug.
Grange, according to the magazine's report, filed a complaint ten years ago, but the trial has not yet taken place, and in the meantime, especially in 2014, a renewed cancer that had previously treated, which commented: "Doctors found on Hepatic grapefruit-sized knots, and that "unique case of medicine," but she asserts that she will not give up and will continue to speak on behalf of her eighty thousand colleagues until the right.