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Thalidomide: was the tragedy preventable?
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THALIDOMIDE AND CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES
Mcbride, W. G. (1961) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(61)90927-8 · Cited by 1,141
Congenital Cataract Following German Measles in the Mother
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Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-century England.
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The practice of medicine in New York a century ago
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Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy: Endocrine Basis and Contribution to Pregnancy Outcome
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dally, A.
- Venue
- The Lancet
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-04
- Volume
- 351
- Issue
- 9110
- Pages
- 1197-1199
- ISSN
- 0099-5355 (ISSN-L)
- 0140-6736
- OpenAlex
- W2007372567
- Cited by
- 477
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 3.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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