Obstetrics (Diethylstilbestrol)

Synthetic Version of Drug Available Along The Mexican Border

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 18th, 1995

For more than 30 years, the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) was sold under at least 78 different names - as pills, injections or suppositories - to improve the outcome of a weak pregnancy.

In 1971, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration directed doctors to stop prescribing it to women after a study linked it to a rare vaginal cancer in the daughters of women who took it.

However, a synthetic hormone similar to DES is still sold in Mexico, over the counter and without a prescription. Called "cuerpo amarillo," it is believed to improve pregnancy outcomes, and "to strengthen the uterus," as one Reynosa, Mexico, pharmacy explained its use.

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