Every year, David Fullerton, a thalidomide survivor in Scotland, receives an annual health grant – a government subsidy created to make amends for the negligence that caused his disability. Mr.

Good morning. The Globe spoke with thalidomide survivors about how their lives have changed 10 years after a settlement with the Canadian government. More on that below, along with news on Costco ...

Sandra Dunne knew she was affected by thalidomide around 1970, when she was nine years old and had started attending hospitals for assessments of her arms. Her mother told her she had, in good faith, ...

January 1973: Paul Foot rails against establishment neglect of the thalidomide children By Paul Foot The drug thalidomide was withdrawn in 1961 after it was shown to have caused birth defects in ...

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 was prescribed to pregnant mothers in the ...

The Taoiseach and Tánaiste have taken “personal responsibility” to ensure the resolution programme for people affected by thalidomide is completed, the representative group has said following a ...

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X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a powerful non-destructive analytical technique used to evaluate crystalline materials and determine their structural properties. As one of the most widely used ...

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 ...

It’s the early 1960s, and Widukind Lenz, a German pediatrician, is going door to door in his efforts to find out what is causing an epidemic of babies born with shortened limbs and other serious ...

It’s the early 1960s, and the German pharmaceutical market is booming. A sedative called Contergan is one of the best-selling drugs. Contergan’s active ingredient is thalidomide, and it is touted as a ...