Drug Safety
Lessons from the Thalidomide Disaster
The greatest pharmaceuticals tragedy ever to take place occurred fifty years ago this year, when the sleeping pill and tranquillizer Thalidomide came onto the market. In the years that followed it caused serious deformities in children whose mothers had taken the drug during pregnancy.
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G8 Development Summit
R&D Pharmaceutical Industry committed to improving health in Africa
The research-based pharmaceutical companies have long played a key role in international aid partnerships to improve health in Africa. Not only do they supply the latest medicines for diseases like HIV/ AIDS at cost and help African companies to manufacture...
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