The patients did not take thalidomide.

While you are taking thalidomide, you will need to have a pregnancy test weekly during the first month of treatment, and then every 4 weeks thereafter.

The statistic was given that "50 percent of the mothers with deformed children had taken thalidomide during the first trimester of pregnancy."

Mat Fraser was born with phocomelia from his mother taking thalidomide while she was pregnant.

Q. Why did you take thalidomide?

Women of childbearing age who want to take thalidomide will be required to use two forms of birth control.

Sarah is missing a hand because her mother, Janet, took thalidomide when she was pregnant.

But Warren will never take thalidomide, or represent anyone who does.

During her pregnancy Andrew's mother took thalidomide to combat her morning sickness, resulting in his severe physical disabilities at birth.

I may have to stop taking thalidomide if these and other effects become intolerable, or if the tumor cells grow resistant to the drug.