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Feet of a baby born to a mother who had taken thalidomide while pregnant. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries was prescribed to women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant, and consequently resulted in the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as ...
Thalidomide: 1961 Germany Withdrawn because of risk of teratogenicity; [62] returned to market for use in leprosy and multiple myeloma under FDA orphan drug rules Thenalidine: 1963 Canada, UK, US Neutropenia [3] [63] Thiobutabarbitone: 1993 Germany Kidney injury. [3] Thioridazine (Melleril) 2005 Germany, UK
Thalidomide victim, right; Sen. Kefauver and President-elect Kennedy, 1960 Associated Press and Joun Rous/Associated Press. A key provision of the new law made it a crime for drug companies to promote drugs to doctors for patients with illnesses for which the drug, according to its FDA-approved label, was not intended and approved for use.
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims is a nonfiction book authored by Jennifer Vanderbes and published by Random House in 2023. It tells the story of how Frances Oldham Kelsey of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found flaws in thalidomide research.
The decision, Cuba observers say, was almost unthinkable just a few years ago, and it exposes how rapidly the country is changing despite the current government’s mantra that it seeks to be a ...
Australia will issue a national apology to all citizens affected by the "Thalidomide tragedy", Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, more than half a century after babies were born with ...
According to many, the U.S. embargo against Cuba was also about deposing former President and former Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro - a Marxist leader who violently overthrew the previous ...
Alan Phillip Gross (born May 2, 1949) [5] is a former United States government contractor employed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).. In December 2009 he was arrested in Cuba while working on a program funded under the 1996 Helms–Burton Act, [6] which explicitly called for overthrow of Castro's government. [7]