"We were swept under the rug," C. Jean Grover tells PEOPLE about how, for decades, the U.S. government has neglected to provide financial aid and assistance to thalidomide survivors Vanessa Etienne is ...

Australia will formally apologise to citizens who were impacted by the “Thalidomide tragedy” more than half a century ago. The tragedy refers to when babies in the country were born with birth defects ...

The claim: Thalidomide, a rapidly approved drug, was banned in the early 1960s after it was discovered to cause birth defects in newborns. Thalidomide and its side effects continue to be cited by ...

Sold outside the United States as a sedative and morning sickness treatment in the 1950s and 1960s, thalidomide caused thousands of babies to be born with malformed arms and legs. In the wake of the ...

The notorious drug caused thousands of babies to be born with shortened arms and legs, or no limbs at all, in the 1950s and '60s The German manufacturer of a notorious drug that caused thousands of ...

“The question is going to be, ‘Why now?’” said Steve Berman of Hagens Berman. “The answer is that medical science has advanced. We now understand the mechanism by which Thalidomide works. There’s been ...

BERLIN (AP) -- 1946— Gruenenthal, a German pharmaceutical, is founded in Stolberg. 1954 — Gruenenthal discovers and patents thalidomide. 1957 — Thalidomide is first sold as Contergan in Germany. It is ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Victims of thalidomide said on Saturday an apology from the German inventor of the drug that caused birth defects in thousands of babies around the world was too little too late.

More than five decades on, the battle for justice over birth defects caused by the drug thalidomide continues in only one European country: Spain. Spanish victims of thalidomide are the only ones ...

In the mid-1970s, while I was a visiting professor in Brazil, I supervised three coordinated masters theses studying the psychological development (cognitive, emotional, and motoric) of Thalidomide ...