Sentences with phrase «of thalidomide birth»

FDA medical officer Frances Oldham Kelsey averted the tragedy of thalidomide birth defects in the United States

Holmes also notes that the relative paucity of thalidomide births in the United States means that few researchers there can speak with authority on the drug's effects.

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Meanwhile, reports of startling birth defects in babies born to mothers who had taken thalidomide were surfacing in Germany, Australia and other countries where the drug was legal — including Kelsey's native Canada.

If you look at the original work on the epidemiology of thalidomide [a morning - sickness drug that turned out to cause birth defects], there were specific time points where, if the woman was exposed, the baby had a high probability of having bona fide autism.

The prime example is thalidomide, which was outlawed in the 1960s because it caused birth defects but has now found a niche in the treatment of cancer and leprosy.

To test the potential of the system as a drug - screening tool, the researchers exposed the differentiating cells to thalidomide, a drug known to cause severe birth defects.