She Was Pregnant When They Injected It — The Label Said Radioactive — The Form Said Vitamins

820 pregnant women received it at Vanderbilt
University between 1945 and 1947. The radioactive
compound crossed the placenta and entered the
developing fetus. Not one of those women was told
what was actually in the injection. The files were
classified. Three children from the study developed
cancer. That finding went into a government report
that stayed secret for decades.

In 1994 — nearly 50 years later — some of those
women received a letter from the government
explaining what had happened at that appointment.

All sources from the Advisory Committee Final
Report and declassified DOE records — linked below.

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SOURCES

1. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments —
Final Report, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995
Full text: hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/ohre/roadmap/achre

2. Vanderbilt University Nutrition Study records —
Referenced in Advisory Committee Final Report,
Chapter 5 and Appendix B

3. U.S. Department of Energy — Openness Initiative
document releases, 1993-1995
nsarchive.gwu.edu

4. The Belmont Report — National Commission for the
Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical
and Behavioral Research, 1979
hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-report

5. Welsome, Eileen — "The Plutonium Files:
America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War"
Dial Press, 1999

6. Clinton, William J. — Remarks on receiving
Advisory Committee Final Report,
White House, October 3, 1995
Clinton Presidential Library

7. National Research Act — Public Law 93-348,
U.S. Congress, 1974

8. Faden, Ruth R. et al. — Advisory Committee
on Human Radiation Experiments,
Oxford University Press, 1996
(expanded academic edition of committee findings)

9. Common Rule — 45 CFR Part 46,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy

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