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800+ pregnant women fed radioactive iron in 1940s human experiments
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1:25Now PlayingHundreds of pregnant women were handed a “vitamin drink” at a prestigious university clinic. No one told them it was radioactive. The human experiments in the 1940s at Vanderbilt University, to see how much radiation would cross the placenta to their unborn babies. The women were told the radioactive iron “cocktails” were good for them, but some of their children later developed cancer and even died.
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