Thursday, 02 August 2012 08:19
‘Newly uncovered documents reveal that pregnant Australian women were used as guinea pigs for the morning sickness drug thalidomide in a series of clinical tests some 50 years ago that left a number of children with substantial birth defects.
The 1960 Australian trials were the first for the thalidomide drug Distaval on pregnant women anywhere in the world, The Age, an Australian daily newspaper, reported recently.’
Read more: Pregnant Women Were Used as Human Guinea Pigs in Thalidomide Trials
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