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02 Dec 2013 11:42 #166059
by ketchim
A lawsuit filed by more than 100 people in Australia and New Zealand :
who suffered birth defects caused by the drug Thalidomide has been settled.
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02 Dec 2013 11:42 #166060
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British company Diageo, which did not distribute the drug but now owns the firm that did ;
agreed to pay $81m , lawyers of claimants say.
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02 Dec 2013 11:43 #166061
by ketchim
Thalidomide
- Thalidomide was developed by German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal
- It was launched on 1 October 1957
- First marketed as a sedative it was then given to pregnant women to combat morning sickness
- As many as 10,000 babies were born worldwide with deformities
- Thalidomide is still used today to treat the complications of leprosy and multiple myeloma
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02 Dec 2013 12:03 #166068
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Monica McGhie, one of the claimants, was born without limbs : :'(
after her mother took Thalidomide during pregnancy 50 years ago.
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