The British government apologized Thursday to people who were harmed in the womb when their mothers took the anti-nausea drug Thalidomide. Health Minister Mike O’Brien told lawmakers the government ...
HUNDREDS of birth defect victims will campaign for justice after their families were harmed by a drug given to pregnant women ...
It has taken half a century for the victims of birth defect pregnancy drug Thalidomide to receive an apology from its German inventors. 01 September 2012 • 8:34am Lawyers have issued new proceedings ...
The German manufacturer of the notorious drug thalidomide, that caused thousands of babies to suffer congenital birth defects, has issued its first ever apology - 50 years after the drug was withdrawn ...
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‘A national scandal’: Hundreds of victims of cancer-linked pregnancy drug call for public inquiry
Jennifer Bradley was told in 1970 that the DES drug prescribed during pregnancy was ‘completely safe’ - but it has left her ...
Editor’s Note: Geoff Adams-Spink was born in 1962 with multiple impairments caused by the drug, thalidomide. He was a BBC journalist for 22 years, and latterly the Age and Disability Correspondent. He ...
A British charity has rebuffed the first apology for half a century from the German company which invented birth defect pregnancy drug Thalidomide. The Grunenthal Group said in a statement it "regrets ...
An apology from the inventor of a drug that caused birth defects in thousands of babies more than 50 years ago was too little too late, victims said Saturday. Thalidomide was marketed in the 1950s and ...
The antiangiogenic effects of thalidomide have been assessed in clinical trials in patients with various solid and haematological malignancies. Thalidomide blocks the activity of angiogenic agents ...
Seven hundred twenty-two patients were randomly assigned to receive placebo or thalidomide capsules 100 to 200 mg daily for up to 2 years. All patients received gemcitabine and carboplatin every 3 ...
A scuba diver with no arms says his hobby allows him to feel like he’s flying. Thalidomide survivor Nic Carapanagiotu, 56, is training the next generation of divers at Southport’s British Sub-Aqua ...
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