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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 ...
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]
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 ...
In the elderly there was a particularly high risk of strokes and other heart-related diseases. In children, Johnson & Johnson’s own data would ultimately count somnolence (51 percent of the time), headaches (29 percent), vomiting (20 percent) and bloating, nausea or other stomach ailments (15 percent), among other side effects.
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]
The share of women opting to change their name has declined in recent decades, but only gradually: A 2015 Google Consumer Survey conducted by The New York Times found that just 22 percent of women ...
The Troubled-Teen Industry Has Been A Disaster For Decades. It's Still Not Fixed.
Sherri Chessen (born 1932), also known as Sherri Finkbine, is an American former children's television host.She is also known as Miss Sherri, her role on the Phoenix version of the franchised children's show Romper Room.