When thalidomide is taken in that window ... We're pretty sure it's causing this epidemic of phocomelia. Katie Hafner: And he made an urgent plea–right there in public–that the unnamed ...

delayed identification of thalidomide as the cause of an epidemic of birth defects. Stevens and Brynner vividly depict the tragedy of the so-called 'thalidomiders', and highlight the devastating ...

Eight Thalidomide victims are seeking compensation from drug makers Papers filed to the High Court on behalf of people whose mothers took the anti-morning sickness drug when pregnant in late 1950s ...

Compounding the tragedy is knowing that America’s epidemic of peanut allergies is a largely avoidable consequence of our ...

More than two millennia later, health officials are paying new attention to this old condition for a startling reason: myopia has reached epidemic levels worldwide. Myopia’s prevalence has ...

Thalidomide was the first immunomodulatory agent approved for use in myeloma. Although highly active, it is associated with considerable toxicity, particularly in older patients. Lenalidomide ...

In June 1832, two events stirred up political conflict in Lower Canada: the Place d'Armes by-election, which turned into a tragedy costing several lives, and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning ...

Since 2017, he has made what he's diagnosed as America's "loneliness epidemic" the center of his public-health agenda, writing several op-eds and a best-selling book and appearing on dozens of ...

A smallpox epidemic killed between 5 and 8 million of the native population in the following two years. Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable ...

But the curves tracing the overdose epidemic tower above them all. In the space of just half a lifetime, the United States entered an entirely new world of drug death. In 1982, the year I was born ...

It was also the site of the most fearsome epidemic to strike the young nation. Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the city's most prominent physicians and a signer of the Declaration of Independence ...

Except for a small decline during the pandemic, the number of suicides in the United States has risen steadily the past 20 years. Today, nearly 50,000 Americans die by suicide annually.[1] That ...