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 ...

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 ...

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

The drug thalidomide was withdrawn in 1961 after it was shown to have caused birth defects in thousands of children worldwide ...

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 ...

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 ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will issue a national apology to all citizens affected by the "Thalidomide tragedy", Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, more than half a century after babies ...

Thalidomide demonstrated superior efficacy in preventing the relapse of immunoglobulin G4–related disease (IgG4-RD) during a 12-month follow-up period in a placebo-controlled trial. The treatment ...

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DISCRETIONARY MEDICAL CARDS are to be provided to individuals who are still waiting for acknowledgement and confirmation that their injuries were caused by the Thalidomide drug. Board members of the ...