JP Saleeby

In the late 1970s a researcher in Japan isolated a compound called Avermectin from the soil. It turned out that this simple act of discovery would have a huge impact on human health. Microbiologist Satoshi Omura and parasitologist William Campbell discovered an organism in the soil of a golf course in Japan that would eventually lead …

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Two people shaking hands Thalidomide was a drug developed in the late 1950s in West Germany and promoted as a sedative and later an antiemetic (helps with nausea and vomiting) to women who were pregnant. The company that developed and promoted this new drug was named Chemie Grunenthal GmbH. By the mid-1950 almost 14 pharmaceutical …

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