Remembering Thalidomide
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Over the last several months, I have been exploring the origins of pharmaceutical malfeasance. Thalidomide, the drug given to pregnant women to
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No Medication is Perfectly Safe
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A few weeks ago, I was accused of being biased and unscientific for acknowledging that all medications carry risks; that no medication
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For some reason, maybe hubris, medical science seems doomed to repeat the sins of their fathers. The lessons of thalidomide and diethylstilbestrol
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What Is Scoliosis?
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As everyone knows, the spinal column is made up of a series of bones known as vertebrae. Like bricks in a column,
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I was diagnosed with a metabolic myopathy carnitine deficiency in high school following all sorts of tests that led to nowhere. Finally,
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I decided to be a surrogate after watching a birth story on TV. I felt like it would be a meaningful way
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DES, Nazis, and American Industrialists
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DES is a synthetic estrogen-like compound developed in 1938 by English chemist Charles Dodd. German chemists under the employ of the Nazis
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Maternal DES and Male Sexual Development
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In the course of trying to figure out why I have certain symptoms normally associated with intersex conditions, but do not fit
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