This specific malformation is sometimes found in women whose mothers took a synthetic estrogen called diethylstilbestrol (DES), which was prescribed to some pregnant women between 1938 and 1971. (verywellfamily.com)
In the early 1970s, the tragic health impacts of diethylstilbestrol (DES), an estrogen - based drug that was thought to prevent miscarriage, introduced the possibility of hormone disruption as a threat to human health and development that sparked intensive study of estrogens in the environment. (endocrine.org)
• DES, a synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol, was used by mothers - to - be between 1938 and 1971 to prevent miscarriage and avoid premature ... (flipboard.com)