O renascimento de um fármaco: talidomida The rebirth of a drug: thalidomide
<abstract language="eng">Thalidomide, first synthesized in 1953, was widely prescribed for morning sickness of pregnant women from 1957 to 1961, when it was found to be seriously teratogenic, having caused serious birth defect. Nowadays, a quarter of a century later, it appears that...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Química
2001-10-01
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