Tag: thalidomide

  • Nation & World

    Expecting better

    Harvard researchers in the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program have created a model for predicting a drug’s tendency to cause birth defects.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Peering into gearworks of FDA

    Daniel Carpenter’s new book, “Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA,” probes the workings of a crucial federal safety agency that often is either lionized or demonized.

    3 minutes