Grandchildren of women who took diethylstilbestrol are 36 percent more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. When it had been taken in the first trimester the grandchildren were 63 more likely to have ADHD. This is because, in female fetuses, all the egg cells (oocytes) develop while they are still in the womb, and these egg cells will later grow into children of the as yet unborn daughter. Grandsons of these women are also at an increased risk for malformation of the urethra. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-tied-to-adhd-generations-later-idUSKCN1IN2OW This just goes to show a lot of problems and disabilities children may have been caused by pharmaceuticals, to which we may not truly understand all the risk factors. It might not seem to cause any problems, but could potentially result in some rare problem in 1 out of a thousand kids, and no one ever notices it until a large study is done that specifically looks for and examines the connection. This study just goes to show how unexpected some of those connections are. Who would have thought to check for a connection between pregnancy drugs and higher rates of ADHD in grandchildren?
An interesting but sad development. Let's hope improvements in medical research and testing prevent such things from happening.
The problem lies in that there is a rush to take medications from testing to market on a timely basis and given the nature of pharmaceuticals, history shows how it can take decades for a drug to prove harmful and cumulative effects to show up in patients, and in some cases, side effect evidence is suppressed so a drug can get FDA approval, in order to pay for the research and testing costs and as well as the profit motive. In many ways the legal pharmaceuticals companies are as bad as the illegal Drug apparatus.
Maybe if someone harmed by those drugs confronted a CEO or a few board members, they'd reconsider their actions....or just hire more bodyguards.