Sentences with phrase «with thalidomide»

Handa's team found that beads tagged with thalidomide bound to a little - known protein called cereblon, which is expressed widely in both embryonic and adult tissues.

In a related report former WHO Global Leprosy Program team leader Vijaykumar Pannikar wrote, «It can not be overemphasized that any potential benefit with thalidomide must be balanced with the known toxicity and the accompanying ethical and legal constraints on its use.»

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

In July 1962, a detailed story about America's close call with thalidomide appeared on the front page of The Washington Post, under the headline «Heroine of FDA Keeps Bad Drug Off Market,» with a photo of Kelsey.

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She notes that Smith Kline & French never manufactured or sold thalidomide and adds: «The Plaintiffs» complaint is replete with scientific inaccuracies and misstatements.»

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.

The company in - licensed thalidomide in 1992 and received FDA approval to market the drug (as Thalomid) for treating severe cutaneous manifestations of leprosy in 1998 and for treating multiple myeloma in combination with dexamethasone in 2006.

Starting in 2008, Marzia Lazzerini of the Institute for Maternal and Child Health in Trieste, Italy, and her colleagues randomly assigned 54 children with Crohn's to get daily thalidomide or a placebo.

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.

Toxicologist Craig Harris of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who has studied thalidomide's effects on gene expression, says that the new data are consistent with some theories of the drug's action, however.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, doctors prescribed thalidomide as an antinausea drug for pregnant women with a regularity that proved tragic.

«It's possible thalidomide will help with all aspects of HHT,» he says.

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.

Like thalidomide and Accutane, statin drugs are a class X drug with regard to pregnancy, meaning they are contraindicated and should NOT be taken by pregnant women.