Australia will formally apologise to citizens who were impacted by the “Thalidomide tragedy” more than half a century ago. The tragedy refers to when babies in the country were born with birth defects ...

BERLIN (AP) -- 1946— Gruenenthal, a German pharmaceutical, is founded in Stolberg. 1954 — Gruenenthal discovers and patents thalidomide. 1957 — Thalidomide is first sold as Contergan in Germany. It is ...

The notorious drug caused thousands of babies to be born with shortened arms and legs, or no limbs at all, in the 1950s and '60s The German manufacturer of a notorious drug that caused thousands of ...

Sold outside the United States as a sedative and morning sickness treatment in the 1950s and 1960s, thalidomide caused thousands of babies to be born with malformed arms and legs. In the wake of the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Victims of thalidomide said on Saturday an apology from the German inventor of the drug that caused birth defects in thousands of babies around the world was too little too late.

The claim: Thalidomide, a rapidly approved drug, was banned in the early 1960s after it was discovered to cause birth defects in newborns. Thalidomide and its side effects continue to be cited by ...

More than five decades on, the battle for justice over birth defects caused by the drug thalidomide continues in only one European country: Spain. Spanish victims of thalidomide are the only ones ...

A drug once denounced for causing birth defects seems to be a promising tool in the fight against a form of blood cancer, In a late-stage study involving 270 patients, researchers looked at whether ...

(Reuters) - Citing a "disturbing course of conduct" by a law firm in litigation over thalidomide-related birth defects, a U.S. judge is allowing a special master to question plaintiffs about whether ...

In the mid-1970s, while I was a visiting professor in Brazil, I supervised three coordinated masters theses studying the psychological development (cognitive, emotional, and motoric) of Thalidomide ...