Thalidomide :PharmaGeddon !

[size=12pt]Thalidomide was sold worldwide and eventually linked to birth defects[/size]

                     

A lawsuit filed by more than 100 people in Australia and New Zealand :

who suffered birth defects caused by the drug Thalidomide has been settled. 8)

British company Diageo, which did not distribute the drug but now owns the firm that did ;

agreed to pay $81m , lawyers of claimants say. 8)

Thalidomide

• [li] Thalidomide was developed by German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal[/li]
  

• [li] It was launched on 1 October 1957[/li]
  

• [li] First marketed as a sedative it was then given to pregnant women to combat morning sickness[/li]
  

• [li] As many as 10,000 babies were born worldwide with deformities[/li]
  

• [li] Thalidomide is still used today to treat the complications of leprosy and multiple myeloma[/li]
  

Monica McGhie, one of the claimants, was born without limbs :  :'(

after her mother took Thalidomide during pregnancy 50 years ago.

was thalidomide from Monsanto to ::confused::

naaaahhh....German Lab production !