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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 01:38:01 JST HebrideanHecate

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   Ministers must begin paying compensation to the families of children disabled by the epilepsy drug sodium valproate by next year, a report will say this week. The report’s author, Dr Henrietta Hughes, England’s patient safety commissioner, says valproate is “a bigger scandal than thalidomide, in terms of the numbers of people affected”. She will back calls for financial redress for the thousands of children left physically and mentally disabled. Every month, three babies are still being born who have been exposed to the drug.

   As many as 20,000 babies in the UK may have been harmed by valproate since it was licensed in the 1970s. Risks about its effect on babies were intentionally withheld from women by regulators. Many were told it was safe, when about 40 per cent of babies who were exposed were left disabled.

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     @skjadul @HebrideanHecate @ArtistBristol medicine is full of priestly, mystical truths, it is anti-empirical.

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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 01:38:00 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @ArtistBristol Absolutely! These fuckers are guilty of soooooo much, but it is all about the money and damn all else.

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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 01:38:00 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @ArtistBristol And then there's this

     https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p1436#:~:text=Some%20of%20the%20women%20had,outcome%20of%20mesh%20revision%20surgery.

     Women in Scotland who underwent vaginal mesh procedures for stress urinary incontinence were given inaccurate information and were not told of the risks of the surgery, a case review ordered by the Scottish government has concluded.1

     The Transvaginal Mesh Case Record Review, moderated by Alison Britton, professor of healthcare and medical law at Glasgow Caledonian University, analysed in depth more than 40 000 pages of records from 18 women who suffered life changing effects from the surgery. One patient said, “My pain never goes. I’ve always got pain in my groin, my back, and nerve damage in my legs.”

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     skjadul (skjadul@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 01:38:00 JST skjadul

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     @HebrideanHecate @ArtistBristol My mom's gyns have offered this procedure to her for the last 8 years. She does not want to go under the knife, so she refused it.
     When she told me about it I told her about the complications. Last time they offered it she said that she knew about the complications and everything... And the doctor was surprised about it!
     Apparently this doctor (and probably many more) doesn't know what happens in the field.
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     Radical Cartoons (artistbristol@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 01:38:01 JST Radical Cartoons

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     @HebrideanHecate Again, just like Thalidomide, targeted at pregnant women. Thalidomide was supposed to help depression.
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