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New life for thalidomide?

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The drug thalidomide is intimately linked in the public mind with deformed children and the legal wrangle that led to its withdrawal as a tranquiliser in the early 1960s. However, recent promising results of using thalidomide in HIV infection and tuberculosis suggest that its reputation may be on the road to recovery.

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  1. Ian Mundell
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Mundell, I. New life for thalidomide?. Inpharma Wkly. 907, 3 (1993). https://doi.org/10.2165/00128413-199309070-00003

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