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How Thalidomide Makes Its Mark Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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More than 50 years after the drug thalidomide hit the market as a remedy for nausea in pregnant women, researchers may finally have pinned down how it causes severe birth defects. Their results show that the drug's ability to block the development of new blood vessels may be behind the deformed limbs of children born to women who took thalidomide early in pregnancy. The finding could contribute to the development of a similar compound that does not have the same ill-effects. (source: abdn.ac.uk)
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