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The Connection Between a Statue in Trafalgar Square, a 1960s Children's Show Host and the ...
Edit Huffington Post 29 Dec 2015
The caption read. "Thalidomide?" ... In 1962 when Sherri became pregnant with her fifth child she took 36 of the pills. Meanwhile, a German pediatrician named Widukind Lenz observed a pattern of children being born with severe deformities, such as phocomelia, and when he began documenting the cases he found that 50% of those mothers had taken Thalidomide in the first trimester of pregnancy ... ....
Remind Me Again, What Is Thalidomide And How Did It Cause So Much Harm?
Edit IFL Science 08 Dec 2015
Thalidomide was developed in an era of widespread enthusiasm – but little critical attention – for pharmaceutical therapies ... , CC BY ... Side Effects ... After encountering several cases in his practice, the pediatrician Widukind Lenz surveyed the rate of new birth defects in the Hamburg region and found 50 cases ... The first, from Widukind Lenz, stated he had seen “52 malformed infants whose mothers had taken Contergan in early pregnancy” ... ....
Thalidomide: how men who blighted lives of thousands evaded justice
Edit The Guardian 14 Nov 2014
Eighteen of them spent 12 days failing to shake the key testimony of the Hamburg paediatrician Dr Widukind Lenz, who had alerted Grünenthal to the tragedy ... Grünenthal believes that medical concern that thalidomide could be responsible for malformations was raised with it for the first time in November 1961 by German physician Dr Widukind ......
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