Explore some of the most catastrophic medical mistakes in history, from surgeries performed on the wrong body parts to unethical experiments that led to widespread suffering. This video delves into ...

Purpose: The use of thalidomide as an antiangiogenic agent has met with only limited success in the treatment of malignant gliomas. On the basis of preclinical data demonstrating synergistic antitumor ...

Researchers have found in recent clinical trial conducted in India that combining thalidomide with hydroxyurea (HU) significantly outperformed HU alone in treating sickle cell anemia (SCA). The ...

Women were historically excluded from health studies on the grounds that hormone fluctuations introduced "noise" into the ...

Molecular Pharmacology Section, Cancer Therapeutics Branch and Clinical Pharmacology Research Core, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, ...

Thalidomide was banned worldwide in the 1960s due to its teratogenicity, and remained so until the late 1990s when it returned to physicians’ armamentarium as a medicine for a variety of inflammatory ...

When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...

It was a doctor at the hospital who first told me I would likely take a thalidomide drug as part of my treatment. That couldn’t be possible, I told him. I knew the story of thalidomide ...

CALL the Midwife fans have been left scratching their heads after a familiar face was noticeably missing from the first look pictures at the new series. Fans of the BBC drama fear the beloved ...