The drug was never licensed for sale in the U.S., so American victims of thalidomide number fewer than 20. Great Britain, however, has more than 1,000 thalidomide babies. In West Germany, where Chemie ...

FIVE YEARS AGO VICKI WALTON was living like Job. The 30-year-old Wyoming woman suffers from Behcet's disease, an autoimmune condition that inflames the joints and ulcerates the skin, eyes and genitals ...

It was the miracle pill of the 1950s - the cure for morning sickness, backed by doctors and governments worldwide. Then the ...

It was a grim harvest for West Germany: 3,000 babies dead shortly after birth and another 3,000 with grotesque malformations, because their mothers had taken the sleeping-pill tranquilizer thalidomide ...

It’s the early 1960s, and the German pharmaceutical market is booming. A sedative called Contergan is one of the best-selling drugs. Contergan’s active ingredient is thalidomide, and it is touted as a ...

When she asked why she did not have any hands, the answer Leslie Mink, of Silver Spring, Maryland, got was God wanted her that way. Paul Koneczny, of Christiansburg, Virginia, figured it was just “bad ...

Tarbert native and Ireland’s youngest Thalidomide survivor, John Stack, told The Kerryman this week that, following a meeting at the Government Buildings in Dublin with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and ...