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The Return of Thalidomide

Thalidomide is the infamous drug at the heart of one of the world's worst drug safety catastrophes in modern medicine. And yet, more recent research is finding that thalidomide is still worth using, despite the risks. So what makes this drug that causes life-altering fetal abnormalities such a good thing?