Sentences with phrase «from thalidomide»
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«A universe of thalidomide related injuries has been thereby excluded from diagnosis.»
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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.
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.
It is far from clear that thalidomide's terrible effects would have been detected even by today's animal testing.