A controversial drug which has caused deformities in unborn babies has been discovered by doctors of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center to be helpful in treating leprosy. The drug. Thalidomide, was found to suppress violent body reactions to sulfones, a group of drugs which lepers must take throughout their lifetime. The discovery was made at a leprosarium in the West Bank town of Ramallah, according to Prof. F. Sagher, head of the department of dermatology at the Hadassah-University Medical Center. The leprosarium, to which Dr. Sagher offered his services after the Six-Day War, serves the people of Jordan.
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