The drug thalidomide was withdrawn in 1961 after it was shown to have caused birth defects in thousands of children worldwide ...

Drug was removed from most markets in 1961 following links to birth defects, but was sold in Ireland until 1964 ...

The Irish Thalidomide Association (ITA) met with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris on Thursday afternoon to ...

The man on the bus was staring at her. Carolyn Farmer, 17, noticed him as she closed the Leon Uris novel “Exodus” and gathered her things. It was 1979, and she knew what it was like to have strangers ...

The Government has met Thalidomide survivors in Dublin and outlined a series of measures to help them, including the provision of medical cards.

William McBride, who was among the first doctors to sound an alarm about thalidomide, the sedative found to cause birth defects, but whose later career was marred by accusations of falsified research ...

The deforming effects of thalidomide on unborn children have been known for almost seven years, and the drug’s manufacturers are even now on trial in Alsdorf, Germany (TIME, Sept. 6). Still, no one ...

Early Deaths and Treatment-Related Mortality in Children Undergoing Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Analysis of the Multicenter Clinical Trials AML-BFM 93 and AML-BFM 98 Twenty-two patients ...

A study points to the possibility that thalidomide derivatives are potentially suitable for treating cancer. Thalidomide was marketed in the 1950s as a sleeping pill. It later gained sad notoriety for ...

The drug thalidomide, sold as Thalomid (shown above) by the Celgene Corp. As the legendary phoenix rose from the ashes, so the drug thalidomide, responsible for severe birth defects across Europe in ...