Thalidomide lessons from

The overriding lesson learnt from thalidomide was that we cannot just wait until a drug safety problem, quite literally in this case, hits us between the eyes. So thalidomide led directly to the initial development of the systems we now have, although it is only quite recently (i.e. since the early 1990s) that the term pharmacovigi-lance has become widely accepted. 

Lessons from Isolation of Cereblon (CRBN) Using Thalidomide... 

Prior to the mid-1980s the chemical industry experienced some upheavals of which the thalidomide tragedy of the early 1960s and the Bhopal catastrophe in 1984 are two major examples. However, the lessons learned from such sad events led to a spectacular improvement during the 1990s in the safety record of the industry in the Western world. 

Thalidomide and Taxol Lessons Learned from Two Drugs... 

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