Sentences with phrase «before thalidomide»

More than 10,000 children in 46 countries were born with missing limbs and other deformities before thalidomide's manufacturers pulled it from the market.

The lawsuit, filed in a Philadelphia court on 25 October, asserts that before thalidomide was pulled from markets around the world, samples were doled out to more than 1,200 physicians in the United States by three companies whose legal liabilities are now the property of Sanofi - Aventis US, based in Bridgewater, New Jersey.

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Scathing of drugs companies and the way they often put profits before human life, he had earlier fought for the rights of victims of the drug thalidomide.

Worldwide, roughly 10,000 affected children nicknamed «thalidomide babies» were born with multiple defects, including the characteristic shortened upper limbs (a condition known as phocomelia, Greek for «seal limbs»), before the drug was discontinued in 1961 after four years on the market.