Sentences with phrase «thalidomide babies»

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.

Tony is a thalidomide baby — he was born without arms.

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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.

There are no babies rendered obviously deformed, as with thalidomide.

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.