Assertion: thalidomide's use | /r/HasProperty | discontinued
Facets:
value: previously
type: TEMPORAL
value: owing to its terafogenic effects
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Peripheral neuritis is not at all a joke: it is a tingling of the extremities, in particular the fingers, and while Merrell accepted that thalidomide had caused this problem in some cases, they insisted that the condition cleared up once thalidomide use was discontinued.
text: Before its teratogenic activity came to light and its use was discontinued, ~10,000 affected children were born from women taking thalidomide during pregnancy (1–3).
text: The passage of more than 11 years since thalidomide was first used in leprosy forms a convenient point to summarize the main facts about this drug, the general use of which had previously been discontinued owing to its terafogenic effects.