Marion Merrell Dow
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Marion Merrell Dow and its predecessor Marion Laboratories was a U.S. pharmaceutical company based in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1950 until 1996.
Marion's office space in Kansas City was taken over in 2006 by Cerner Corporation
Thalidomide
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Thalidomide, sold under the brand names Contergan, Distaval and Thalomid among others, is an oral administered medication currently used to treat a number of cancers, graft-versus-host disease, and ma
Marion Merrell Dow
…previously synthesized chlorotrianisene and ethamoxytriphetol. One of Richardson-Merrell's best-known incidents revolved around its efforts to introduce thalidomide into the US market in the 1950s and 1960s under the brand name "Kevadon". The drug was already highly popular in Europe as a sedative and antiemetic…
Pack of thalidomide capsules
Container of Kevadon brand of thalidomide from 1960
Baby born to a mother who had taken thalidomide while pregnant
Niko von Glasow, German filmmaker