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  2. Thalidomide scandal - Wikipedia

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    Thalidomide brought on changes in the way drugs are tested, what type of drugs are used during pregnancy, and increased the awareness of potential side effects of drugs. According to Canadian news magazine programme W5, most, but not all, victims of thalidomide receive annual benefits as compensation from the Government of Canada. Excluded are ...

  3. Castro hated them and banned them: Why TV commercials are ...

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    Advertising in Cubadebate, a Cuban state news site. For some foreign observers, Cuba became a curiosity, an idyllic place without the annoying barrage of ads typical in capitalist societies.

  4. List of withdrawn drugs - Wikipedia

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    Thalidomide: 1961 Germany Withdrawn because of risk of teratogenicity; [62] returned to market for use in leprosy and multiple myeloma under FDA orphan drug rules Thenalidine: 1963 Canada, UK, US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

  5. Thalidomide - Wikipedia

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    Thalidomide is racemic; while S-thalidomide is the bioactive form of the molecule, the individual enantiomers can racemize to each other due to the acidic hydrogen at the chiral centre, which is the carbon of the glutarimide ring bonded to the phthalimide substituent.

  6. Opinion - The tragic reality of Cuba’s medical brigades. The ...

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    Cuba's communist regime has a history of exploiting its medical personnel by forcing them to work in difficult conditions and restricting their travel and communication rights, and it is time for ...

  7. Australia apologizes for thalidomide tragedy as some ...

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    Australia established a support program in 2020 that is providing lifelong assistance to 148 survivors, and Albanese said his government was reopening the program to survivors who had yet to register.

  8. Alan Gross - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Radio y Televisión Martí - Wikipedia

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    Cuba continues to broadcast interference against U.S. broadcasts specifically directed to Cuba in attempts to prevent them from being received within Cuba. After the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the budget for all U.S.-government-run foreign broadcasters, with the exception of Radio Martí, was sharply reduced.