Professor Chai recalls the case of Thalidomide babies. Thalidomide was prescribed to pregnant mothers in the late 1950s and early 1960s to combat nausea, but was later found to cause severe fetal malformations.
他以藥品「沙利竇麥」為例：當時孕婦為了降低懷孕期的不適，普遍服用這種具有鎮靜效果的藥物，不料卻造成嚴重的畸型胎兒問題。