How to Use thalidomide in a Sentence

thalidomide

noun

• But Kelsey’s body of work goes well beyond thalidomide.
  — Nancy Kriplen, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• The drug thalidomide first surfaced in Europe during the 1950s.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• Among the key problems with thalidomide was the way it was manufactured.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 6 Oct. 2021
• Back in the 1950s, thalidomide was approved to lessen nausea among pregnant women.
  — Sam Coffey, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• This is why some researchers say regulators have taken the wrong lessons from the thalidomide tragedy.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan/undark, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020
• In the early 1960s a drug for morning sickness called thalidomide caused the birth of deformed babies, and laws were passed to tighten drug approvals.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 1 June 2022
• But the time, thalidomide’s darker effects were just becoming known.
  — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
• First, though, with the promise of anonymity, Chessen called the local newspaper to warn the community about thalidomide.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2022
• The drug thalidomide, used in the mid-20th century as a sedative for pregnant women, turned out to cause terrible birth defects if taken at the wrong time.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2016
• An example of this is thalidomide, a sedative prescribed in the 1960s for morning sickness; later, it was found to cause birth defects.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 30 Oct. 2017
• Although not a vaccine, in the 1950s a drug called thalidomide was prescribed for early-pregnancy nausea.
  — Suzi Ring, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2021
• The drug thalidomide caused terrible birth defects when it was used to relieve nausea during pregnancy in the 1960s.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2022
• Because Congress was in a rush to respond to the thalidomide tragedy in the early 1960s, when the babies of some women who took the morning-sickness drug were left with permanent birth defects.
  — Juliet Eilperin, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• The episode was considered Mr. Evans’s greatest triumph, a dual victory for both thalidomide survivors and freedom of the press.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020
• But the use of thalidomide during pregnancy in the early 1960s resulted in an increase of babies of both genders born missing limbs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
• One was the morning sickness drug thalidomide, tested on American women in the 1950s, that could cause severe birth defects or stillbirths.
  — New York Times, 9 June 2022
• In 1962, a scare over birth defects caused by thalidomide led to groundbreaking standards for clinical trials.
  — Joshua M. Sharfstein, STAT, 21 Nov. 2019
• As mothers in other countries would learn, the drug—better known by its generic name, thalidomide—could cause horrible birth defects.
  — Jonathan Kay, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2017
• Kevadon, better known as thalidomide, proved to be one of the most dangerous and disfiguring drugs in history.
  — Michael S. Kinch, STAT, 31 July 2020
• For example, thalidomide was a medication that seemed to have low levels of risk to adults during testing and was used for morning sickness.
  — Yvette D'entremont, SELF, 13 Oct. 2017
• Celgene’s biggest blockbusters have been Thalomid and Revlimid, which treat the rare blood cancer multiple myeloma and are based on the compound thalidomide.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• Howick points specifically to the use of thalidomide in the 1960s to treat nausea in pregnancy—tragically failed.
  — Lila MacLellan, Quartz at Work, 24 Oct. 2019
• In the late 1950s, doctors began prescribing a new drug named thalidomide to pregnant women in Europe and North America, to ease their morning sickness.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 6 Oct. 2021
• Her younger brother, James, is disabled, blind in one eye and in constant pain, after their mother took the morning-sickness drug thalidomide during pregnancy.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
• Soon after, the antiemetic thalidomide was determined to cause severe birth defects overseas.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• That changed in 1964 when a Jerusalem dermatologist, Jacob Sheskin, used thalidomide on a patient with leprosy.
  — Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2019
• But the thalidomide episode, combined with the incentives government regulators face, has cemented a culture of risk-aversion in the FDA.
  — Fortune, 26 Feb. 2021
• Although it was not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, thalidomide was given to Americans in trials.
  — Brittany Shammas, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Oct. 2021
• The change came about after a massive scandal surrounding the drug thalidomide, which in the 1950s was widely prescribed to pregnant women to alleviate morning sickness.
  — Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2014
• By all accounts, Thomson gave Mr. Evans a free hand in publishing sensitive stories, including the series on thalidomide.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2020

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