A Healthy Baby Girl
199757 minsColor
Judith Helfand, Director
Appeared at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival
Between 1947 and the mid-1970s, millions of pregnant women were prescribed the synthetic hormone DES to prevent miscarriages. Years later, not only was the effectiveness of DES placed in doubt, but its documented carcinogenic properties were disclosed. In this very personal documentary, Judith Helfand (BLUE VINYL), the daughter of a woman who took DES, relates how at age 25 she learned that she had clear-cell cancer and had to have a hysterectomy. Winner of a Peabody Award for excellence in journalism and public education.
Between 1947 and the mid-1970s, millions of pregnant women were prescribed the synthetic hormone DES to prevent miscarriages. Years later, not only was the effectiveness of DES placed in doubt, but its documented carcinogenic properties were disclosed. In this very personal documentary, Judith Helfand (BLUE VINYL), the daughter of a woman who took DES, relates how at age 25 she learned that she had clear-cell cancer and had to have a hysterectomy. Winner of a Peabody Award for excellence in journalism and public education.
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| Director | Judith Helfand |
| Editor | Tricia Reidy |
| Actor | Judith Helfand |
