Primodos: Firms and govt face legal action over claims pregnancy drug 'damaged babies'

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Primodos: Firms and govt face legal action over claims pregnancy drug 'damaged babies'
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'When children won't play with you because they are worried about your artificial arm, it's hard.' Marie Lyon took Primodos when she was pregnant with her daughter, who was born with a deformity in her arm. Sunrise More on the pregnancy test drug:

"We are so grateful SPG Law has chosen to represent us but unbearably sad that many of our members are no longer alive to see justice finally served.

Recipients of the letters include German pharmaceutical giant Bayer, who took over Schering, the manufacturers of the drug Primodos. Also, Sanofi, whose predecessor company Roussel produced a similar drug called Amenorone Forte. Also in 2018, Neil Vargesson, senior lecturer at Aberdeen university's Institute of Medical Sciences, published research showing deformations to zebra fish embryos just hours after they received a dose of Primodos components.

In response to the Oxford University research, it added:"The UK asked that the Committee for Human Medicinal Products, which is the main expert scientific body of the European Medicines Agency, to conduct an independent assessment of these publications.

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