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 ...

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 ...

William McBride, who was among the first doctors to sound an alarm about thalidomide, the sedative found to cause birth defects, but whose later career was marred by accusations of falsified research ...

When former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro went to Capitol Hill last week to urge increased federal funding for blood cancer research and to tell how her own multiple myeloma ...

A drug once denounced for causing birth defects seems to be a promising tool in the fight against a form of blood cancer, In a late-stage study involving 270 patients, researchers looked at whether ...

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian woman born without arms and legs after her pregnant mother took the anti-morning sickness drug Thalidomide has reached a multimillion dollar settlement with the medicine’s ...

It was touted as a sedative with no hangover. It was hailed as non-addictive. It was rumored to present no side effects. It was trumpeted in medical journal ads as “astonishingly safe” and “completely ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Thalidomide, a drug that caused birth defects when it was launched as a morning sickness pill half a century ago, may be useful for treating a hereditary condition that affects ...

William McBride, who was among the first doctors to sound an alarm about thalidomide, the sedative found to cause birth defects, but whose later career was marred by accusations of falsified research ...