Recent news on Thalidomide

‘Clinical studies are subject to very strict rules and guidelines’  -  25 May 2007
Hindu,There have been major changes in rules and regulations after many disasters, like the Thalidomide disaster.� He added that the current laws are stringent

Burner fear for children  -  25 May 2007
The Argus.co.uk,It's a worse public health scandal than the thalidomide one that led to the collection of birth defect data in the first place."

Call for debate on study-enhancing drugs  -  25 May 2007
Guardian Unlimited,..."A few years ago when I talked to people about the use of drugs on children, people were reminded more of thalidomide ... I think that's fading from the

Rachel Carson and the Deaths of Millions  -  25 May 2007
American Thinker,...over radioactive fallout from nuclear testing and a horrifying incident involving the pregnancy drug thalidomide, which led to gross birth defects.

Thalidomide Provides a Durable Response and Survival Benefit ...  -  May 22, 2007
DG NewsThalidomide has been chosen for clinical trials in MDS for three important effects: anti-tumour necrosis factor effect, anti-angiogenic effect,

Leprosy Could Pose New Threat  -  May 21, 2007
The Ledger,Mahammadi is taking adrug called thalidomide -- the most infamous medicine of the 20th century. It caused birth defects when taken by pregnant women,

Legislators are right in curtailing vaccine  -  May 19, 2007
Arizona Republic,Remember the severely deformed babies of women who took Thalidomide? And it took a generation before it became known that diethylstilbestrol causes cancer

Pharmion Corporation Reports Net Sales of $62.7 Million for Q1 2007  -  Apr 25, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),Named patient and compassionate use sales of thalidomide totaled $20.1 million in the first quarter of 2007, compared to $19.5 million in the same period of

Use of this drug for cows risky  -  May 11, 2007
Daily Nation (subscription),The story is reminiscent of Thalidomide which may help to elucidate the problems associated with unnecessary treatment of a physiological phase (some women

'This is not a baby I am going to lose'  -  May 4, 2007
Globe and Mail,...“Reports in the 1980s described crack cocaine as the next thalidomide,� recalls pediatric toxicologist Gideon Koren, who is the director of the Motherisk

Pharmion prices offering  -  May 11, 2007
Bizjournals.com,Pharmion has two drugs on the market -- Vidaza and Thalidomide Pharmion, both of which are used to treat cancers -- and another four in the pipeline.

Celgene Shares Fall After Revlimid Misses Estimates (Update2)  -  May 3, 2007
BloombergThe Summit, New Jersey, company reported today sales of Revlimid, a derivative of the once-banned thalidomide, more than quadrupled to $146 million.

The Steven Lendman Information Hour  -  May 22, 2007
The Daily Scare,...from them cannot be extrapolated to humans - a case in point is Thalidomide, its side-effects on the offspring of pregnant women well documented.

Multiple myeloma clinical trial closes early  -  May 21, 2007
WebWire (press release),Furthermore, a number of clinical trials have suggested that dexamethasone in combination with thalidomide, a drug very similar to lenalidomide,

Autism on the rise  -  May 21, 2007
Bend Bulletin (subscription),They tend to occur in people with other medical conditions or in children whose mothers took thalidomide during their pregnancy, according to the CDC.

Coming Soon: The Shopping Channel Run By Pharmaceutical Companies  -  May 20, 2007
Free Internet Press,Fifty years ago a drug company came out with a medication that included an ingredient called thalidomide. That ingredient, it turned out, caused serious

Fahrenheit 451: Industry, Media, and US/UK Governments Collude ...  -  May 21, 2007
Bay Area Indymedia,...from them cannot be extrapolated to humans - a case in point is Thalidomide, its side-effects on the offspring of pregnant women well documented.

He's serious about a game  -  May 20, 2007
MaineToday.com,Robbins met a beautiful 16-year-old girl, a girl who, because her mother had taken the infamous drug thalidomide during pregnancy to quell morning sickness,

A Lost History Of Abortion  -  May 19, 2007
ZNet,Two panics about birth defects--the thalidomide scandal and a 1965 rubella epidemic-- stirred up discussion about what it meant to a woman to give birth to

Five on Faith: Requiring girls be vaccinated  -  May 19, 2007
Greensboro News Record,...(Remember when the federal government said thalidomide was perfectly safe? Or DES? Or hormone replacement therapy?) It is reckless to require massive

PHS students inspired by 'Alvin's laws of life'  -  May 18, 2007
Cambridge Times,In the early 1960s, more than 13000 babies were born with deformities caused by the morning sickness drug thalidomide. His mother had taken the drug after

Andre Picard  -  May 17, 2007
Globe and Mail,Thalidomide, for example, remained a common treatment for sedating pregnant women years after it became clear that their babies were being born without arms

Turning Back The Clock On Abortion  -  May 15, 2007
CBS News,Two panics about birth defects — the thalidomide scandal and a 1965 rubella epidemic — stirred up discussion about what it meant to a woman to give birth to

A lost history of abortion.  -  May 13, 2007
New Republic (subscription),Two panics about birth defects--the thalidomide scandal and a 1965 rubella epidemic--stirred up discussion about what it meant to a woman to give birth to a

Drug Safety Proposals and the Intrusion Of Federal Regulation into ...  -  May 11, 2007
American Enterprise Institute,Eight years later, the next major risk management plan was adopted for the reintroduction of the drug thalidomide, which was approved for leprosy treatment

Senate Approves Tighter Policing of Drug Makers  -  May 10, 2007
New York Times,To make that sure patients could have access to drugs with extraordinary risks like thalidomide, for a type of cancer, and Tysabri, for multiple sclerosis,

A classical convergence  -  May 6, 2007
calendarlive.com,ONE person who may be changing it is baritone Quasthoff, a Thalidomide baby who was born with a number of birth defects. "Jazz was always a kind of friend

Celgene triples earnings from year-ago  -  May 3, 2007
Newark Star Ledger,Revlimid is a safer, more potent version of Thalomid, a once-notorious morning sickness drug called thalidomide that was banned in the 1960s.

Fight against cancer turns doctor into patient  -  Apr 27, 2007
Rocky Mountain News,So he opted for an experimental cocktail of Velcade, Thalidomide and Decadron, which together killed about 99 percent of his cancer cells, while causing a

Medicine and the Drug Industry, a Morality Tale  -  Apr 25, 2007
New York Times,Thalidomide never caused an epidemic of birth defects in this country, as it did in Germany, only because a single stubborn FDA officer was dissatisfied

2007年高教自学考试英语二串讲资料(å››)  -  Apr 26, 2007
新浪网,If thalidomide were invented today， it would never be released for human use because new tests on pregnant animals would reveal the dangers.

Munich Festival honors duo  -  Apr 26, 2007
VarietyEvent will also unspool "Eine einzige Tablette" (A Single Pill), pubcaster WDR's telepic about the thalidomide drug scandal of the early 1960s that resulted

Don’t use herbicide, council advises  -  Apr 25, 2007
Huntsville Forester,Boivin likened the issue to approving the use of Thalidomide. “And look what the result of that was, because of our arrogance, thinking that we had all the

The woman who needs a veil of protection from modern life  -  Apr 27, 2007
Daily Mail,..."Is Wi-Fi going to turn out to be the tobacco, asbestos or Thalidomide of the 21st century? It's looking that way. "And instead of testing it out properly,

Neurodevelopment & the Environment: Are Vaccines to Blame for ...  -  Apr 28, 2007
American Chronicle,Another study found a few specific environmental factors including prenatal exposure to thalidomide, valproic acid, and rubella though they are likely to

Pharmion Corporation Reports Net Sales of $62.7 Million for Q1 2007  -  26 Apr 2007
PR Newswire (press release),Named patient and compassionate use sales of thalidomide totaled $20.1 million in the first quarter of 2007, compared to $19.5 million in the same period of

Medicine and the Drug Industry, a Morality Tale  -  26 Apr 2007
New York Times,Thalidomide never caused an epidemic of birth defects in this country, as it did in Germany, only because a single stubborn FDA officer was dissatisfied

German thalidomide drama cleared  -  Apr 13, 2007
Taipei Times,A TV drama about the thalidomide scandal which led to thousands of women giving birth to disabled children has prompted a bitter row between the filmmakers

Thalidomide legacy lives on  -  Apr 8, 2007
BBC News,Five decades after the drug thalidomide caused an international scandal, it still casts a long shadow over pregnancy for many women.

Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs  -  Apr 22, 2007
Indianapolis Star,The widespread use of thalidomide to quell morning sickness and lobotomies to reduce anxiety are two such examples. Even though Meyers' larger message

Shooting: Entertainment comes to life  -  Apr 21, 2007
The Salinas Californian,...while the high priests of Hollywood inject into the minds and hearts of our youth, thalidomide - a hypnotic sedative, and everyone excuses them.

Analysis: Surge forecast for Pharmion drug  -  Mar 30, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Based on the results, Reddoch raised his expected penetration rate by 2012 for Thalidomide from 18 percent to 45 percent. He noted that the stock is vastly

Myeloma Drug Works Better at Lower Dose  -  Apr 6, 2007
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription),Patients were receiving the lower-dose steroid alongside another cancer-fighting drug, lenalidomide, a chemical cousin of thalidomide.

FDA Urges Label Change from "Irradiated" to "Pasteurized"  -  Apr 9, 2007
Food Consumer,A Thalidomide Warning (I) “The thalidomide disaster might have been prevented if an easily performed investigation of possible cytotoxic effects in plant

The Coming Plague  -  Apr 9, 2007
Wall Street Journal (subscription),Just months earlier, a horrified world had discovered that one drug of the future -- thalidomide -- relieved morning sickness and helped people fall asleep;

Don’t use herbicide, council advises  -  Apr 25, 2007
Huntsville Forester,Boivin likened the issue to approving the use of Thalidomide. “And look what the result of that was, because of our arrogance, thinking that we had all the

Study results alter treatment for deadly form of cancer  -  Apr 5, 2007
Post-Bulletin,Thalidomide fell out of favor after babies whose mothers had taken it were born with birth defects. But it is regaining momentum as a potential therapy for

Use of Celgene's Revlimid drug may expand  -  Apr 5, 2007
NorthJersey.com,SUMMIT -- Celgene Corp. says its thalidomide derivative Revlimid may help patients newly diagnosed with a blood cancer live longer, suggesting use of the

The hidden suffering of India's lepers  -  Mar 31, 2007
BBC News,Mahammadi showed me the drug she was taking - called thalidomide - the most infamous medicine of the 20th century. It caused birth defects when taken by

Oral Lichen Planus Responds to Methotrexate, Pimecrolimus  -  Apr 18, 2007
Medscape (subscription)Response was substantial to all treatment, including methotrexate and thalidomide, given to the most heavily pretreated and treatment-refractory patients.

POSTIE SNUBS ARMLESS GIRL  -  Apr 7, 2007
Sunday People,THALIDOMIDE victim Louise Medus, who has no arms or legs, was left in tears when a delivery man refused to let her sign for a parcel with her mouth.

Leprosy 'could pose new threat'  -  Apr 3, 2007
BBC News,She has infected lesions on her arms. Mahammadi showed me the drug she was taking - called thalidomide - the most infamous medicine of the 20th century.

Papal embrace launched musical mission for Melendez  -  Apr 4, 2007
Westlake West Life,Born without arms because his mother took the drug Thalidomide during her pregnancy, Melendez had been active in Catholic music ministries in Los Angeles

Lack of funding threatens nanotechnology research  -  Mar 28, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,Prince Charles has warned in the past that nanotechnology could cause "upsets" like the drug thalidomide, which caused birth defects - although he denied

Minister announces Blue Badge scheme reforms  -  Mar 29, 2007
Which?,This would mean that all those with Thalidomide related disabilities would be eligible for a Blue Badge. Transport Minister Gillian Merron has also

Voice of the Reader  -  Apr 22, 2007
The Southern,Remember Thalidomide. The Center of Disease Control (CDC) reports HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD) in America.

Northwestern Chemists Develop New Method For Synthesizing Anti ...  -  Apr 8, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),The left handed version of thalidomide helped pregnant women combat morning sickness, but the right handed compound was a teratogen, causing children to be

Low-dose Steroid Combined with Lenalidomide Prolongs Survival ...  -  Apr 5, 2007
PressZoom (press release),Lenalidomide, a derivative of thalidomide, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2006 to be used in combination with dexamethasone for the

ECOG Phase III Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Trial (E4A03 ...  -  Apr 5, 2007
Drug Newswire (press release),LENALIDOMIDE IS AN ANALOGUE OF THALIDOMIDE. THALIDOMIDE IS A KNOWN HUMAN TERATOGEN THAT CAUSES SEVERE LIFE-THREATENING HUMAN BIRTH DEFECTS.

CHEMISTS SYNTHESIZE FLAVONOIDS FOR FIRST TIME  -  Apr 5, 2007
Scientist Live,The left handed version of thalidomide helped pregnant women combat morning sickness, but the right-handed compound was a teratogen, causing children to be

Bortezomib Boosts Response When Myeloma Comes Back  -  Apr 20, 2007
Cancerpage.com,NEW YORK APR 20, 2007 (Reuters Health) - Multiple myeloma treatment with melphalan, prednisone and thalidomide (MPT) appears to be improved with the

Diamond joy  -  Apr 19, 2007
Bexhill Observer,They moved to Normans Bay in 1971, where they ran a holiday home for thalidomide children, then moved to Bexhill town centre in 1978 where they owned the

FDA Decides Cloned Animals Safe to Eat  -  Apr 18, 2007
SlashdotWe've been there before with so many other products (eg if you are pregnant be sure to (not) take some Thalidomide [wikipedia.org] to help with the morning

Drug Safety Reform at the FDA  -  Apr 17, 2007
American Enterprise Institute,FDA has in the past used such tools only rarely, for drugs that have important benefits but also clearly cause serious side effects (eg, thalidomide).

India, China, Malaysia boost Asia's MIPTV presence  -  Apr 16, 2007
Hollywood Reporter,CANNES -- A controversial German TV movie about the Thalidomide birth-defect scandal of the 1960s is finally going for sale at this year's MIP-TV after a

The Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium And Nereus ...  -  Apr 17, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...who are resistant to Velcade, steroid therapy, Thalomid(R) (thalidomide, Celgene Corporation) and Revlimid(R) (lenalidomide, Celgene Corporation).

Germs and the City  -  Apr 15, 2007
City Journal,After the 1962 Thalidomide amendments, the unknown cure was officially more dangerous than the known disease. Very strong evidence would be necessary to

PDUFA Reauthorization — Drug Safety's Golden Moment of Opportunity?  -  Apr 13, 2007
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),...containing diethylene glycol, and the 1962 passage of the Kefauver–Harris Amendment resulted directly from the thalidomide disaster of the early 1960s.

Gentium's Defibrotide Highlighted in Two Poster Presentations at ...  -  Apr 13, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),...an independent Phase I/II study of Defibrotide to treat multiple myeloma in combination with melphalan, prednisone and thalidomide underway in Italy."

Gentium’s Defibrotide Highlighted in Two Poster Presentations at ...  -  Apr 13, 2007
Business Wire (press release),...an independent Phase I/II study of Defibrotide to treat multiple myeloma in combination with melphalan, prednisone and thalidomide underway in Italy.�

Chemists' research at university could help advance drug development  -  Apr 12, 2007
Princeton Packet,They cited the drug thalidomide, which in the 1960s was developed to help women overcome morning sickness, but an enantiomer of which caused birth defects.

Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: DR Horton, Lennar, Cost Plus and ...  -  Apr 11, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Its leading products are Thalomid (thalidomide) and Revlimid. Thalomid is an immunomodulatory agent with multiple-use potential.

ARMLESS MUM IN SIGNATURE UPSET  -  Apr 9, 2007
Gloucestershire Echo,Thalidomide victim Louise Medus wasn't allowed to sign for a parcel - because she needed to do it with her mouth.Louise was born with no arms but writes

Nereus Pharmaceuticals to Present Data at the American Association ...  -  Apr 9, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Preclinical studies indicate NPI-0052 is active against myeloma cells from patients who are resistant to bortezomib, steroid therapy, thalidomide and

One call can help save a child from accidental poisoning  -  Apr 6, 2007
Fremont Tribune,...“Back in the 1950s, poisons were treated with syrup of ipecac, mercury thermometers were used to check for a fever, the drug thalidomide was being

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