The government has agreed to look at a new study which claims to reveal how the hormone pregnancy test drug Primodos causes malformations to babies in the womb. The report comes after alleged victims ...

No "causal association" can be found between a pregnancy test and malformations to babies in the womb, according to a government working group study. This conclusion was reached despite the fact that ...

Politicians question report that found no evidence hormonal pregnancy tests taken in 1960s and 1970s caused birth defects MPs have attacked a report into controversial hormone pregnancy tests ...

The government should consider "redress" for the victims of pregnancy test drug Primodos, Theresa May has told Sky News. In an exclusive interview, the former prime minister heavily criticised the ...

11:28, Wed, Jul 8, 2020 Updated: 22:41, Wed, Jul 8, 2020 Primodos was taken by more than a million women in the 1960s and 1970s to check whether they were pregnant. But many believe it caused ...

When Diane Surmon thought she was pregnant with her third child in 1970s she took two tablets given to her by her GP. She was one of about a million UK women to be prescribed Primodos, a hormone based ...

18:20, Wed, Jul 8, 2020 Updated: 18:26, Wed, Jul 8, 2020 Primodos was a form of hormonal pregnancy test (HPT) which was first made available in the UK during the late 1950s. For years families ...

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Primodos is an oral hormonal pregnancy test that was prescribed to women in the UK between 1958 and 1978. It was withdrawn amid fears the test was linked to cleft palates, limb defects and heart ...

The government will release information it holds on the drug Primodos, a hormonal pregnancy test which some fear caused birth defects and miscarriages. Health Minister George Freeman said it would ...