Perhaps if you at least read the headline you might find the answer: "This excerpt, from the upcoming book Why Dissent Matters by William Kaplan, tells the story".

Thalidomide is now used on a limited basis as an anti-cancer drug.

Seeing the description of it being marketed as a sleeping drug helps me in coping with the Resident I saw at the BC Cancer Agency yesterday. I asked if it could make me drowsy and unsafe for driving.

He told me that his understanding was that it was marketed as an anti nausea nostrum. Providing more information about a little used drug is helpful, to patients and to physicians.

It is interesting to note that most chemotherapy drugs are toxic to some degree. Is this a long overdue admission that thalidomide is a toxin?