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Overview

In the 1960s the drug thalidomide was used by some pregnant women in Europe and Canada to treat morning sickness. Women who took the drug in early pregnancy gave birth to children with severe birth defects such as missing or shortened limbs. Shortly after the birth defects were observed, thalidomide was banned worldwide.

http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/genpub/topics/thalidomide2-ccae.html

[patriciaruth]

I'd always heard Thalidomide was a tranquilizer, sleeping pill. It may have been used to treat morning sickness, but I didn't think that's what it was indicated for. Interesting.

It is supposedly making a comeback as a possible cancer drug.