Assertion: drug thalidomide | /r/Causes | birth defects
Facets:
value: in thousands of children
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose mothers took the drug while pregnant, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have solved a mystery that has lingered ever since the dangers of the drug first became apparent: how did the drug produce such severe fetal harm?
text: One of the major arguments against testing drugs on animals is the example of the drug thalidomide, which caused birth defects.
text: More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose mothers took the drug while pregnant, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have solved a mystery that has lingered ever since the dangers of the drug first became apparent: how did the drug produce such severe fetal harm?
text: More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose mothers took the drug while pregnant, Harvard Medical School scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have solved a mystery that has lingered ever since the dangers of the drug first became apparent: How did it produce such severe fetal harm?
text: One of the major arguments against testing drugs on animals is the example of the drug thalidomide, known to chemists as (±)-N-(2,6-Dioxo-3-piperidyl)phthalimide, that caused birth defects.
text: More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose mothers took the drug while pregnant, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have solved a mystery that has lingered ever since the dangers of the drug first became apparent: how did the drug produce such severe fetal harm?
text: - it's just been revealed that GlaxoSmithKline, the company that wants you to do more, feel better and live longer, have been hit with a suit in a Pennsylvania court alleging that they, along with other pharmaceutical companies and their predecessors, negligently buried evidence showing the morning sickness drug thalidomide caused birth defects.