Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nobody wants to see anotherThalidomide tragedy. The drug was prescribed to pregnant women during the 1950s and early 1960s to treat nausea. But it led to more than10,000 childrenworldwide with irreversible birth defects, ranging from limb deformities to facial...
A classic example was the failure to distinguish between enantiomers of the Thalidomide molecule. One version of this drug acted as an effective treatment for morning sickness, and was prescribed in the early 1960s to many thousands of pregnant women. Unfortunately, its enantiomer caused very ...
At the time, there was also a sharp focus on the fallout of thethalidomide disaster. In 1962, it was revealed that thousands of children had been affected by severe and even fatal foetal abnormalities after their mothers were prescribed the drug for morning sickness and sleeplessness. Because of...
• It's the same group that originally thought it was safe to use x-ray machines in shoe stores, gave pregnant women Thalidomide for morning sickness and once allowed mercury in medicines. They assured us Vioxx and Duract were safe painkillers, prescribed Rezulin for diabetics and then denie...
nightmarish cases such as the 1960s Thalidomide disaster "created this protectionist view toward women," says Woitowich, "and what ended up happening was that women of childbearing age were excluded from early stage clinical trials. Not knowing whether a woman could be pregnant excludes a huge ...
Can’t remember exactly but it was about £50k a dose. Used in severe last ditch sepsis treatment. Not a vial you want to drop.” 2. Only twice… “In 15 years of hospital pharmacy, I’ve twice had occasion to dispense Thalidomide. ...