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William Griffith McBride CBE AO (25 May 1927 – 27 June 2018) was an Australian obstetrician. He published a letter on the teratogenicity of thalidomide [1] [2] [3 ...
Although the Australian obstetrician William McBride took credit for raising concern about thalidomide, it was a midwife called Sister Pat Sparrow who first suspected the drug was causing birth defects in the babies of patients under McBride's care at Crown Street Women's Hospital in Sydney. [19]
William McBride (Australia), a physician who discovered the teratogenicity of thalidomide, was found by an Australian medical tribunal to have "deliberately published false and misleading scientific reports and altered the results of experiments" on the effects of Debendox/Bendectin on pregnancy. [131] [132] [133]
Until William McBride published the study leading to its withdrawal from the market in 1961, about 8,000 to 10,000 severely malformed children were born. The most typical disorders induced by thalidomide were reductional deformities of the long bones of the extremities.
McBride created Foundation 41 using prize money given by France's L'Institut de la Vie in connection with his discovery that thalidomide (N-α-phthalimidoglutarimide) caused malformations by interacting with the DNA of dividing embryonic cells. Ongoing funding was by public philanthropy. This essentially ceased with the Debenox case.
William McBride – obstetrician, who in 1961 first warned the medical world against thalidomide as a human teratogen; Charles George McDonald – physician, army officer and academic; Patrick McGorry – Australian of the Year 2010; Wirginia Maixner – neurosurgeon, Director of neurosurgery at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne ...
McBride married Andrew Cray in August 2014, four days before he died of oral cancer. Even now, McBride said she still holds close a number of lessons Cray and their relationship taught her.
William James Mayo (1861–1939) — co-founder, Mayo Clinic; William Worrall Mayo (1819–1911) — co-founder, Mayo Clinic; Salvador Mazza (1886–1946) — Argentine epidemiologist who helped in controlling American trypanosomiasis; William McBride (1927–2018) — discovered teratogenicity of thalidomide