Thalidomide scandal
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thalidomide-scandal-182-9048245
title:
Thalidomide scandal
text:
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries by women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant resulted in the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as phocomelia, as well as thousands of miscarriages. Thalidomide was introduced in 1953 as a tranquilizer, and was later marketed by the German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal under the trade name Contergan as a me
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description:
Birth defects linked to thalidomide use
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
date created:
2009-11-06T02:59:24Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T12:53:51Z
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