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Thalidomide Is Back Almost 50 Years Later

In the 1950s and 1960s, Thalidomide was used to treat pains in pregnant women. The drug was distributed throughout Europe and pregnant women were ecstatic by its pain relieving abilities, what they weren`t so impressed with was the fact that when their children were born a few months later, there were serious defects. Thalidomide was the bane of the pharmaceutical business, even Billy Joel sang about this disastrous medication. But today it seems that Thalomid, which utilizes Thalidomide as its base compound, may actually help children and adults through out the world.

Pharmaceutical companies throughout the globe are focusing major percentages of their businesses on cancer research. The reasons on a business standpoint are pretty simple, there is lots of money to be made in cancer, the disease has a plethora of variations and affects everyone in the world, regardless of race, gender or age. As a whole, the disease has the potential to run a pharmaceutical company for well over a century, the trick is to find the right tools to help treat the cancer, while keeping patients on medication.

Although the pharmaceutical companies are far from selfless, without them people would not survive this deadly disease. As a result of constant cancer research, one pharmaceutical group has discovered that Thalomid will help in the treatment of blood cancer. There is no cure for any type of blood related cancer, and over 14,000 Americans are diagnosed annually. Regardless of the destructive effects that Thalidomide caused in the 1960`s, if the chemical works properly as a cancer treatment option, thousands of patients will be saved.