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
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
Thomas Quasthoff
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Thomas Quasthoff is a German bass-baritone. Quasthoff has a range of musical interest from Bach cantatas, to lieder, and solo jazz improvisations. Born with severe birth defects caused by thalidomide,
Thalidomide
…survivor to carry the Olympic Torch. In 2015, Mercer was appointed MBE for community services with the lonely at the local hospital in Mid-Sussex. Thomas Quasthoff, an internationally acclaimed bass-baritone, describes himself: "1.34 meters tall, short arms, seven fingers – four right, three left – large, relatively…
Quasthoff, 2010