Thalidomide A Bitter Lesson

But this new revelation shocked scientists — among them the coauthors of McBride s paper. They maintained that McBride 

We often hold up thalidomide as the ultimate example of what may occur when we fail to test drugs rigorously enough. Advocates of natural medicine use the thalidomide saga in their campaign to heap muck on mainstream, scientific medicine, forgetting that numerous natural substances can also have serious toxic effects. Thalidomide has become the villain. Too bad. Recent research indicates that it could be an effective treatment for a variety of conditions. 

Since thalidomide can inhibit the growth of blood vessels, it is called an angiogenesis inhibitor. This is why it is so dangerous in the first trimester of a pregnancy. The blood vessels 

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