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  • There are new thalidomides, there are even more promising drugs such as proteasome inhibitors in the clinic that are showing great promise and I think that her prognosis is really quite good.

    CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2001 2001

  • Islam and what might follow and has naturally followed from them (starting with the perceived behavior of Muslims conducting Jihad over 1350 years, wherever they were able to conduct it because of local conditions or circumstances) -- then there will be more miscarriages, with justice stillborn, the result of those thanatotropic bromides and thalidomides, sentimentality and ignorance.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

  • Legless Kim Morton is a municipal politician in Belfast who spearheaded a successful campaign to extract compensation for thalidomides from the British pharmaceutical firm that licensed the drug from Grünenthal.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Calendar Girls (and the true story behind it), von Glasow enlists his fellow thalidomides-six women and five men-to join him in posing for a calendar of nude photographs.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Von Glasow and the 11 other thalidomides he profiles have the German pharmaceutical firm Grünenthal to thank for the shit they're in.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • It's Fraser too who finds an existential silver lining in the fact that thalidomides at least know who to blame for their plight: "We never have to go, 'Why me, God?' which must be a terrible dilemma.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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