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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 ...
Marjorie Wallace CBE Marjorie Wallace Born Marjorie Shiona Wallace (1943-01-10) 10 January 1943 (age 82) Nairobi, British Kenya Nationality British Alma mater University College London Occupation SANE Chief Executive Spouse(s) Andrzej Skarbek John Mills Partner(s) Tom Margerison Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Marjorie Shiona Wallace CBE (born January 1943) is a British ...
Today in the UK there are 426 people with Thalidomide Impairment still alive today, and Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds is among them. [27] She was born with no limbs, and just 4 Fingers and 13 Toes, which is notably the title of her autobiography. She is somebody who overcame Thalidomide impairment and lived a very successful life.
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 ...
Thalidomide scandal: International: Mostly US and Europe 1950s-60s Thalidomide was given to people, including pregnant women, resulting in severe birth deformities and miscarriages. Despite not receiving FDA approval in the US, thalidomide was given to many women as part of clinical trials without their consent or awareness. [17]
Michaelina "Mikey" Argy [1] MBE (born 1962) is an English thalidomide survivor and activist. [2] [3] She is a past chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Thalidomide Trust, the organisation through which British thalidomide survivors receive financial support, [1] and is still involved in the media activities of the trust.
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]
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]