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"It's probably the most iconic toxic drug of all time because of its signature injuries," Vanderbes said. "It transformed the FDA because it made it clear that more significant and serious drug testing had to take place before drugs were released on the market."

The doctors didn't tell the women they were taking thalidomide or document it in their medical records, Vanderbes said. The women "had no slips of paper that showed their prescription. They had no bottles with a label."

What many did have were children born with truncated limbs.

But even after these babies were born, and even after the scientific community understood the dangers of thalidomide, doctors did not reveal that they had given their patients the drug, Vanderbes said. Some women were specifically told they had not taken it

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Bill would secure justice for veterans of Cold War-era human experiments
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Because they couldn’t speak of their time at Edgewood, these veterans had no way of proving to the ...