>> The FDA never approved use of Thalidomide in the US. >> Practically all >> US cases of birth defects from it were from mothers who were in >> Europe when it was in widespread use.
> It's been re-approved in some places but only for use after the first > trimester. I've also read some theory that rather than causing the > undeveloped limbs it prevented natural miscarriages of deformed fetuses. I seem to recall some information indicating that Thalidomide inhibited development of whatever was developing at the time it was taken, and the absence of limbs was due to the fact that it was limbs developing at the time it was taken. If taken earlier or later the effects would have been different. I also seem to recall hearing that Thalidomide was one of the few treatments for leprosy which is a problem in some areas, and in those areas it is provided in packages with all manner of birth defect warnings and pictures and instructions not to take if pregnant, yet people still take it when pregnant with the expected results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
