What is the thalidomide incident? What are the lessons? Find a solution

◆ Disease knowledge, medical knowledge, clinical knowledge and health science knowledge can help you recover from the disease. In the early 1960s, a pharmaceutical factory in the Federal Republic of Germany produced a sleeping pill called thalidomide, which had obvious curative effect on vomiting during pregnancy. Once listed in Europe, Australia, Canada, Latin America and Africa, it was widely used. 196 1 in June, 2006, the teratoma of seals caused by thalidomide was reported at the academic conference of obstetrics and gynecology in the Federal Republic of Germany, and 6000-8000 cases of abnormal fetuses occurred in the five years of 1956- 196 1 year were summarized. This is the reaction that shocked the world. Stop. Thalidomide is the largest, widest and most tragic drug disaster in the 20th century. It has sounded the alarm for the world to pay attention to drug safety. It has also brought profound historical lessons to people: (l) The department of new drug research and development should take adverse drug reactions seriously. (2) When promoting products, pharmaceutical manufacturers should comprehensively introduce the advantages and disadvantages of products. (3) Drug approval and management departments should strictly control, especially the drug instructions should be detailed and realistic. (4) Strengthen post-marketing monitoring of drugs. Source: The information is provided by Zhejiang Medical Association, and all rights reserved. It cannot be reproduced without permission.