Reference tables with centiles of limb to body height ratios of healthy human adults for assessing potential thalidomide embryopathy

Student work on trends in infant and child growth – an editorial

“…She showed that mortality bias in growth may exist, but it may not be large enough to impact interpretations of past population growth patterns. Anne Reimann (Reimann et al 2019) addressed one of the biggest pharmaceutical scandals in post-war German history, the "Contergan scandal" of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Contergan (Thalidomide) when taken during early pregnancy can cause severe developmental disruption.…”