Landmark Lawsuit Pitts Breast Cancer Survivors Against Drug Companies

I shot a portrait last night for the ipad newspaper, The Daily.

A landmark lawsuit pitting breast cancer survivors against drug companies is helping shed light on problems allegedly caused by a pregnancy drug widely prescribed decades ago.

The drug, a synthetic form of estrogen called DES, or diethylstilbestrol, was prescribed in the 1940s until 1971 under more than a dozen different brand names to pregnant women experiencing everything from miscarriages to nausea.

Fast-forward 40 years later, and some of the daughters of those pregnant women are now adult women getting breast cancer at greatly elevated rates….. Read More