Abstract
Advancements in Case Studies Consideration of the Light and Dark Sides of Medicines: The Thalidomide Example Fumihiko Hinoshita* Department of Nephrology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan *Corresponding author: Fumihiko Hinoshita, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Nephrology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Head, The research group on grasping the health and living situation as well as creating the support infrastructure for thalidomide-impaired people in Japan Submission: September 28, 2017; Published: October 25, 2017 DOI: 10.31031/AICS.2017.01.000501 ISSN 2639-0531Volume1 Issue1
Highlights
It is easy to imagine that the use of medicines, even though primitive, started with the history of human beings
Numerous anti-retroviral therapy (ART) drugs, for example, have saved many patients suffering from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a virus which has afflicted tens of millions of people cumulatively since early in the 1980’s
In a 2010 report, it was estimated that more than 2,000 thalidomide victims might be living in Germany, Copyright © All rights are reserved by Fumihiko Hinoshita
Summary
*Corresponding author: Fumihiko Hinoshita, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Nephrology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Head, The research group on grasping the health and living situation as well as creating the support infrastructure for thalidomide-impaired people in Japan It is easy to imagine that the use of medicines, even though primitive, started with the history of human beings.
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