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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 ...
Due to a successful marketing campaign, thalidomide was widely used by pregnant women during the first trimester of pregnancy. However, thalidomide is a teratogenic substance, and a proportion of children born during the 1960s had thalidomide embryopathy (TE). [90] Of these babies born with TE, "about 40% of them died before their first ...
Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey CM (née Oldham; July 24, 1914 – August 7, 2015) was a Canadian-American [1] pharmacologist and physician. As a reviewer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), she refused to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns about the lack of evidence regarding the drug's safety. [2]
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.
McBride published a letter in The Lancet, in December 1961, noting a large number of birth defects in children of patients who were prescribed thalidomide, [9] after a midwife named Sister Pat Sparrow first suspected the drug was causing birth defects in the babies of patients under his care at Crown Street Women's Hospital in Sydney. [10]
Len and Terry Wiles c. 1970. Terrence 'Terry' Wiles (born 12 January 1962) was one of the most visible thalidomide babies born in the United Kingdom. He has since become known internationally through the Emmy Award winning [1] [2] television drama On Giant's Shoulders and the best-selling book of the same name.
Eleven babies are dead after women were given the erectile dysfunction medication Viagra during pregnancy as part of a drug trial in the Netherlands. 11 babies die after mothers take Viagra in ...
Minnesota state law explicitly protected children born alive during abortion procedures since at least 1976 when the state legislature adopted Section 145.423. This statute determined that, “A ...