A dangerous drug gave them a lifetime of disabilities. Hard-won compensation has made difficult days easier and more joyful – ...

The money has indeed made difficult days easier for the thalidomide survivors, providing financial security, the ability to ...

But the babies whose mothers took thalidomide in the United States were largely forgotten. Today, more than half a century later, people who believe they are the U.S. survivors of thalidomide have ...

Fianna Fáil TD for Carlow-Kilkenny, John McGuinness, has written to the Government Chief Whip requesting an urgent and ...

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, ...

John F. Kennedy presents the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service to Dr. Frances Kelsey in August, 1962, for her role in protecting the public health and averting catastrophic ...

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 ...