1962 - Launched campaign to ban Thalidomide in United States
Pharmacology
About This Innovation
* Taussig heard about babies in Germany being born with undeveloped or missing limbs. * After traveling to Germany to learn more, she returned to the States to try to stop the pending approval of this drug by the FDA. * Thalidomide was banned in the United States and Europe in 1967.
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Pharmacology
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done
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