On 12/1/2014 8:13 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/01/2014 11:55 AM, Bruce Layne wrote: >> But things got better after the FDA, and the FDA approved >> products were safe. Right? The list of unsafe drugs >> approved by the FDA would fill an encyclopedia. Here is >> but one gruesome example. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#Birth_defects_crisis
> The FDA never approved use of Thalidomide in the US. > Practically all > US cases of birth defects from it were from mothers who were in > Europe when it was in widespread use. It's been re-approved in some places but only for use after the first trimester. I've also read some theory that rather than causing the undeveloped limbs it prevented natural miscarriages of deformed fetuses. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
