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...health reasons), a detachment of parents who are co-plaintiffs followed the testimony intently from reserved seats, while malformed children played in the corridors. On the witness stand was the man who, by extensive research, first developed the evidence that forced thalidomide's withdrawal from sale. Dr. Widukind Lenz was a pediatrician in Hamburg when he began to study the effects of the drug. Now 49, he has moved to Münster as director of the Institute of Human Genetics...
Seal Limbs. After three months of frustrating legalities, the people in the crowded courtroom saw for themselves the naked evidence of thalidomide's devastating effects. Dr. Lenz showed color slides of children with no arms, or no legs, or only seal-like flippers where arms and legs should be. Some of the pictures came from post-mortems and showed malformations of the heart and other internal organs...
Relentlessly, Lenz assembled the evidence against thalidomide. Phocomelia (seal limbs) had been one of the rarest of congenital defects until 1960, the year after thalidomide went on the market. Then the incidence of the condition increased exponentially, and Lenz had a damning graph showing that it went up on a curve exactly paralleling that of thalidomide sales-but with an eight-month time lag. Lenz explained that he explored other suggested explanations for the increase in phocomelia, such as X rays, TV radiation, fallout and attempted abortions. As a cautious clinical scientist, he eventually rejected them all. Said Lenz: "There...
...Classical hemophilia, resulting from the absence of a clotting factor from the blood, is carried in an X chromosome. The mother-carrier, with one such abnormal chromosome, derives it from her father. West Germany's Dr. Widukind Lenz, of thalidomide fame, now reports that the risk of a woman's inheriting such a mutation increases sharply with the father's age at the time of her conception...
...BILL LENZ Augusta...