More than 50 years after the discovery of thalidomide's tragic ability to stunt limbs in developing human fetuses, researchers have now identified a cellular protein involved in the drug's side ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, FDA inspector Frances Kelsey was assigned her first drug to review: thalidomide. Her thorough investigation led her to discover that the drug had caused pregnant women to bear babies ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Thalidomide, which caused birth defects when it was launched as a morning sickness pill half a century ago, has been officially approved in the European Union as a treatment for ...

Luke Grzeskowiak receives funding from the Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation, The Hospital Research Foundation, National Health and Medical Research Council and Medical Research Future Fund.

Social media users are falsely claiming that the drug thalidomide was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the 1950s or 1960s. Thalidomide was marketed internationally to pregnant ...