Jennifer Bradley was told in 1970 that the DES drug prescribed during pregnancy was ‘completely safe’ - but it has left her ...

HUNDREDS of birth defect victims will campaign for justice after their families were harmed by a drug given to pregnant women ...

The drug thalidomide was withdrawn in 1961 after it was shown to have caused birth defects in thousands of children worldwide ...

Hundreds of women have formed DES Justice UK after an ITV News investigation highlighted the failures of health authorities ...

Last week, only a few months after thalidomide was denounced as the cause of the worst medical disaster in history, the drug was being hailed in Israel as a possible treatment for cancer. The Israeli ...

Here in the USA, we have lived with the confidence that the medications sold over the counter, by prescription or ...

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 ...

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Grünenthal (now GmbH) was a small private company set up after World War Two as an offshoot of an old family firm that made soaps and detergents. Its first pharmaceuticals were produced under foreign ...

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