Prior to 1961 drugs were not stringently tested before being introduced to the Australian market. The prevailing view in obstetric care was that medications that were non-toxic to the mother were non-toxic to the developing fetus. This illusion was dramatically and irreversibly shattered in 1961 when Sydney obstetrician Dr William McBride raised the alarm that babies exposed to thalidomide were being born with significant birth defects. The thalidomide tragedy would go on to have seismi...
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Prior to 1961 drugs were not stringently tested before being introduced to the Australian market. The prevailing view in obstetric care was that medications that were non-toxic to the mother were non-toxic to the developing fetus. This illusion was dramatically and irreversibly shattered in 1961 when Sydney obstetrician Dr William McBride raised the alarm that babies exposed to thalidomide were being born with significant birth defects. The thalidomide tragedy would go on to have seismi...
Prior to 1961 drugs were not stringently tested before being introduced to the Australian market. The prevailing view in obstetric care was that medications that were non-toxic to the mother were non-toxic to the developing fetus. This illusion was dramatically and irreversibly shattered in 1961 when Sydney obstetrician Dr William McBride raised the alarm that babies exposed to thalidomide were being born with significant birth defects. The thalidomide tragedy would go on to have seismi...
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Prior to 1961 drugs were not stringently tested before being introduced to the Australian market. The prevailing view in obstetric care was that medications that were non-toxic to the mother were non-toxic to the developing fetus. This illusion was dramatically and irreversibly shattered in 1961 when Sydney obstetrician Dr William McBride raised the alarm that babies exposed to thalidomide were being born with significant birth defects. The thalidomide tragedy would go on to have seismi...
