thalidomide: profile and news
MCEWAN, Thomas Arthur - At the Guelph General Hospital, . . . 16 May 2006
After years working with crippled children it did not prepare him for when he saw a thalidomide baby born with only paddles for hands and feet. ... - Guelph Mercury (subscription),
Thalidomide baby goes comic Apr 25, 2006
What do you get when a 44-year-old Canadian thalidomide baby takes on Howard Stern? We'll find out Thursday. Standing at all of 4-foot-1, Hamilton, Ont. ... - Globe and Mail,
APS: For Migraine and Cluster Headaches, Most Anything Is Worth a ... May 15, 2006
Another older drug being used in headache relief is Thalomid (thalidomide), the teratogenic drug that was off the market for decades but is making a comeback ... - MedPage Today,
Pregnant women are orphaned from the tremendous progress in drug ... May 11, 2006
...treatment for pre-existing or pregnancy-related diseases have access to proven safe medications." "Forty-five years after the thalidomide disaster: where do we ... - CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),
Pharmion Corporation Announces Q1 2006 Financial Results Apr 27, 2006
First quarter named patient and compassionate use sales of thalidomide totaled $19.5 million, compared to $20.3 million in the first quarter of 2005. ... - PR Newswire (press release),
Not sold on biocrops May 7, 2006
Along with the presumed and potential benefits are significant risks. For those too young to remember, look up Thalidomide and Agent Orange. ... - Rockford Register Star,
WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN A 44-YEAR-OLD CANADIAN THALIDOMIDE BABY TAKES ... Apr 25, 2006
...estimated four million listeners, after hearing some recent broadcasts where the shock jock disparagingly referred to some of his guests as "thalidomide babies ... - Globe and Mail,
Pregnant women can safely take some drugs Apr 17, 2006
Pharmacy Guild of Australia state president Ian Todd said there was an over-cautious approach to drugs and pregnancy because of the Thalidomide tragedy more ... - Advertiser Adelaide,
Mystery novelist, critic of FDA May 9, 2006
Late in life, he became interested in the positive properties of thalidomide, the sedative that in the late 1950s and early 1960s was linked to birth defects ... - Charlotte Observer,
Abortion: defending the right to choose May 9, 2006
Public opinion had been swayed by the thalidomide disaster, where a new sleeping pill was found to produce severe deformities in the child if taken when the ... - Socialistworker.co.uk,
The Household Drugs That Kill 10,000 a Year May 12, 2006
Agency. The scheme was set up in 1964 after the Thalidomide tragedy and since then more than 500,000 reports have been collected. ... - International News Service,
Google Scholar beta May 2, 2006
...sources). For example, Google found 44,000 results when we looked up 'thalidomide' -- 8,410 of those within the past few years. ... - ZDNet UK,
Cancer-drug makers weigh price limits May 10, 2006
...cancer drugs. To avoid antagonizing AIDS activists, Celgene priced the drug thalidomide at $6 a 50-milligram pill in 1998. But when ... - Pittsburgh Post Gazette,
Lenalidomide and Venous Thrombosis in Multiple Myeloma May 10, 2006
To the Editor: Lenalidomide (Revlimid) is an analogue of thalidomide that has clinical activity in a variety of hematologic conditions. ... - New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),
Hormones Hard to Give Up--for Drug Companies That Make Them Apr 18, 2006
Maybe get to work on an antibiotic for MRSA. (Hello!) Not when they have a perfectly good drug that just needs a use--kind of like Thalidomide. ... - OpEdNews
Writer Herbert Burkholz dead at 73 May 8, 2006
Burkholz also wrote articles for a number of magazines and an FDA paper he wrote about the positive properties of thalidomide was widely picked up, the ... - Monsters and Critics.com,
Lord Simon of Glaisdale May 7, 2006
...flourishes. In The Sunday Times contempt case over the thalidomide publicity, he wrote: “Rhetoric tends to cancel itself out. ... - Times Online,
New role for drug that led to deformed babies Apr 23, 2006
Thalidomide was discovered by accident in 1954 by chemists in Germany who were trying to produce an antihistamine. Although it did ... - Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release),
Pool my resources - I'm still hopeless May 5, 2006
This feature alone would have rendered him my ideal opponent except for the fact that he still had two hands. He was, I realised, a thalidomide baby. ... - Daily Telegraph,
Invitation to a press conference - Need for Drug Evaluation during ... May 8, 2006
...elect of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) Mercédes Benegbi, Executive Director of the Thalidomide Victims Association of ... - CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),
How the US Drug Safety System Should Be Changed May 2, 2006
8 More recent examples include thalidomide and alosetron. 7 The efficacy of most of these interventions remains to be established. ... - Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),
Celgene reports 62% jump in revenue Apr 27, 2006
Sales of the company's lead drug Thalomid, a treatment for leprosy based on the compound thalidomide, rose 21% to $107.2 million. ... - MarketWatch
Government Accountability Office Report Highly Critical of FDA Is ... Apr 24, 2006
...from the market which has exposed the public to a degree of risk never before seen with respect to any prescription drug including sulfanilamide and thalidomide ... - Newsinferno.com,
Veteran councillor to retire after 39 years Apr 25, 2006
In the late 1960s and early 1970s he was involved in the campaign for better compensation for thalidomide children - including 18 months working with the ... - ic SurreyOnline.co.uk,
Summer Begins Apr 20, 2006
...brain. She works on the check-out in the local supermarket and gets confused about the meanings of thalidomide and paedophile. But ... - Guardian Unlimited,
Program to delve into ‘Gospel of Judas' Apr 29, 2006
Born without arms as a consequence of thalidomide, he developed the use of his feet to overcome his handicap and has become an accomplished guitarist. ... - Auburn Citizen,
‘A growing public disquiet for 1080’ Apr 19, 2006
...by Staff reporters. A GISBORNE man fears that the 1080 poison being dropped on the Ureweras will be the next agent orange or thalidomide. ... - Gisborne Herald,
Between hype and doom: keeping an eye on nanotech Apr 21, 2006
Beyond BSE and thalidomide – a drug blamed for thousands of birth defects in the 1950s and 1960s – we might look back to asbestos for a cautionary tale. ... - Open Democracy,
GE Food Alert as More Illnesses Linked to Bt Crops Apr 30, 2006
..."It is the same companies that brought us DDT, Agent Orange and Thalidomide forty years ago, and who are still in denial that persistent health effects on ... - Scoop.co.nz (press release),
Accutane - Another Case of Too Little Too Late Apr 16, 2006
...called on public health officials to immediately impose tougher restrictions on Accutane modeled after a system put in place for the drug, Thalidomide, when it ... - Scoop.co.nz (press release),
