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New Uses of Thalidomide
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New Uses of Thalidomide
February 16, 1996 (Issue: 968)
Thalidomide is now available as an investigational drug in the USA. A synthetic derivative of glutamic acid, it was marketed in Europe in 1957 as a sedative but withdrawn four years later after being associated with severe human teratogenicity (PF ...more
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