Talk:Thalidomide

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Structure

The structure appears to be wrong with R appearing as S and vice versa. If you check it against the pub chem page it was taken from you can see the structures are the other way around. Not ideal, when the thalidomide scandal was to do with its 2 different enantiomer structures 78.19.29.40 (talk) 19:01, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Notable cases

I added Christian Lohr to the list of notable cases, who is probably the only national politician with disabilities due to the drug (definitively in Switzerland). I could not find a statement / source to specifically say that he is the only one worldwide but I wouldnt know of any other. This makes him notable in my eyes and he should be added to the list. --hroest 22:35, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Two points needing change/clarification

1. I'm sure the following sentence made sense to the writer, but it is more than a little confusing to me: "The German company had been established as a soap maker after World War II ended, to address the urgent market need for antibiotics." [Found in the section labelled "History"] How does a soap company fulfil a need for antibiotics? There must be a connection there that I'm not seeing, because to me that's the equivalent of saying 'My children were hungry so I gave them a towel.'

2. In the 'Quality of Life' section, it is stated that many babies born in the early 60's were affected by this drug and the babies who survived to adulthood are now middle-aged. Accoring to information earlier in the article, this drug was used from 1957 to 1962, so the babies affected by this drug are now 62-66 years old. I don't think 'middle-aged' is an accurate description of this age group, since many buinsesses use 55 or 60 the cut off to be considered a senior. 2607:FEA8:AA80:A400:1A0:5006:4E00:3392 (talk) 19:14, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

3. Was confused at "By the mid-1950s, 14 pharmaceutical companies were marketing thalidomide in 46 countries under at least 37 different trade names". If the drug wasn't released until late 1957, such marketing couldnt realistically happen until 1958, hardly "mid 1950s". Suggest change to "late 1950s"

“Men wanting to conceive”

I think this phrase is a mistake 47.139.40.54 (talk) 03:06, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can't see a problem with the page being protected so I suggest fixing the mistake yourself. See WP:FIXIT. Alexeyevitch^(talk) 04:49, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]