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phalimihide

how do you spell it properly? the drug they gave women in the 80s and it fucked up loads of children and made their limbs small.

what was the disease called that resulted from it?

stupid brain.

formaldehyde?

no no, that's a preservative. This is a drug.

thalidomide

thalidomide

haha

also I think it was used in the 50's and 60's and then banned

Massive Quasars Posted: 11-14-2005 08:07 PM Post subject:

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thalidomide

random name Posted: 11-14-2005 08:07 PM Post subject:

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thalidomide

It cause malformations of all types.
People woudn't die of it most of the time but they have all physicals body ''mutations'' almost no arms or legs or shorter then normal. Missing fingers and toes. You don't want to have a child like that.

Thanks

I don't think it's been banned. Or, at least, it's now being used in clinical trials as a treatment for ovarian cancer. I doubt people still use it while pregnant, though.

that's exactly what i was looking for.

ahh the internet

it was only one of the optical isomers of the drug that caused the problem (the molecule comes in two mirror images and only one of them was the culprit)

afaik, the other mirror image is safe & effective, but not sure.

i always hated optical isomer crap in organic chem.