descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Part of book or chapter of book 01 Jan 1961 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:The Lancet, volume 278, page 1,358 (issn: 0140-6736,

Authors: W. G. McBride;

doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(61)90927-8 , 10.1007/978-94-011-6621-8_27

THALIDOMIDE AND CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES

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Sir,—Congenital abnormalities are present in approximately 1.5% of babies. In recent months I have observed that the incidence of multiple severe abnormalities in babies delivered of women who were given the drug thalidomide (‘Distaval’) during pregnancy, as an anti-emetic or as a sedative, to be almost 20%.

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