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Word: alsdorf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deforming effects of thalidomide on unborn children have been known for almost seven years, and the drug's manufacturers are even now on trial in Alsdorf, Germany (TIME, Sept. 6). Still, no one has been able to explain just what it was in the tranquilizer-sleeping pill that produced seal-flipper limbs in children. Last week a German-born investigator with a grandfatherly manner was finally able to pinpoint to the American Chemical Society how thalidomide did its damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: How Thalidomide Works | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...least two years and will be divided into two main phases: 1) an effort to show that the damage was indeed caused by thalidomide; and 2) an attempt to prove that Grünenthal's executives were knowingly responsible and negligent. Last week, in a courtroom in Alsdorf, near Aachen, the prosecution moved deep into Phase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Thalidomide on Trial | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

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