How to Use thalidomide in a Sentence

thalidomide

noun
  • Celgene was newly flush with cash from rising sales of thalidomide.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 May 2025
  • Among the key problems with thalidomide was the way it was manufactured.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Just how many pregnant people might have thalidomide in their medicine cabinet?
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024
  • This is why some researchers say regulators have taken the wrong lessons from the thalidomide tragedy.
    — Jyoti Madhusoodanan/undark, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020
  • But the time, thalidomide’s darker effects were just becoming known.
    — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
  • After two days, if no blood vessels grow on the embryo, a halo should appear around the thalidomide sample, showing the drug worked.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 May 2025
  • Back in the 1950s, thalidomide was approved to lessen nausea among pregnant women.
    — Sam Coffey, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Within two years, reports surfaced that thalidomide caused horrific birth defects.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Whether these protections would catch another thalidomide-like drug before tragedy occurs is unclear.
    — Jyoti Madhusoodanan/undark, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The drug thalidomide first surfaced in Europe during the 1950s.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
  • Soon after, the antiemetic thalidomide was determined to cause severe birth defects overseas.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • As mothers in other countries would learn, the drug—better known by its generic name, thalidomide—could cause horrible birth defects.
    — Jonathan Kay, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Kevadon, better known as thalidomide, proved to be one of the most dangerous and disfiguring drugs in history.
    — Michael S. Kinch, STAT, 31 July 2020
  • Shortly after Jimmy took his first dose of thalidomide, Singhal left for a vacation.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 May 2025
  • The doctor noted how everyone said thalidomide was remarkably non-toxic.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The scientific establishment told us that thalidomide was okay.
    — Will Carless, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
  • For example, thalidomide was a medication that seemed to have low levels of risk to adults during testing and was used for morning sickness.
    — Yvette D'entremont, SELF, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Now, after thalidomide treatment, one-third had declines in myeloma activity.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 May 2025
  • In exchange, the hospital and D’Amato licensed their patents of thalidomide analogs to Celgene.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 May 2025
  • First, though, with the promise of anonymity, Chessen called the local newspaper to warn the community about thalidomide.
    — CBS News, 3 July 2022
  • The agency’s modern-day role was defined in 1962, after thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of babies around the world.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • In 1962, a scare over birth defects caused by thalidomide led to groundbreaking standards for clinical trials.
    — Joshua M. Sharfstein, STAT, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Although not a vaccine, in the 1950s a drug called thalidomide was prescribed for early-pregnancy nausea.
    — Suzi Ring, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2021
  • One of the biggest moments was the FDA’s refusal to approve thalidomide as a treatment for morning sickness.
    — Adam Feuerstein and Matthew Herper, STAT, 31 July 2023
  • The drug thalidomide, used in the mid-20th century as a sedative for pregnant women, turned out to cause terrible birth defects if taken at the wrong time.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2016
  • The drug thalidomide caused terrible birth defects when it was used to relieve nausea during pregnancy in the 1960s.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2022
  • An example of this is thalidomide, a sedative prescribed in the 1960s for morning sickness; later, it was found to cause birth defects.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Her younger brother, James, is disabled, blind in one eye and in constant pain, after their mother took the morning-sickness drug thalidomide during pregnancy.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2020
  • But the use of thalidomide during pregnancy in the early 1960s resulted in an increase of babies of both genders born missing limbs.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2023
  • Celgene’s biggest blockbusters have been Thalomid and Revlimid, which treat the rare blood cancer multiple myeloma and are based on the compound thalidomide.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018

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