An advocate says some people with disabilities faced discrimination because they were often mask or vaccine exempt.

Despite being impacted by thalidomide and having 35 operations in her lifetime, Jacqui Browne was an avid sailor and ...

Having warned that the Government was waiting for Thalidomide victims to die, Jacqui Browne's death is a reproach to the ...

Minister Norma Foley has led tributes to disability campaigner and Tralee woman, Jacqui Browne, who died following a short ...

Thalidomide survivors in 'historic' meeting with Govt leaders Updated / Wednesday, 24 Jul 2024 21:37 The Irish Thalidomide Association said the Government's response amounted to 'tea and sympathy' ...

Survivors of the thalidomide morning sickness drug, which caused significant side effects in newborn babies in the 1950s and 1960s, met for several hours yesterday to discuss their response to the ...

A group representing Irish thalidomide survivors has said those impacted are devastated, hurt and shocked by the expression of sympathy they received in a letter from the government this week.

Some thalidomide survivors say they were openly rejected by their parents. UK writer Louise Medus was one of the last babies born with the effects of the drug thalidomide.

Irish survivors of thalidomide - a drug prescribed worldwide during the 1950s and 1960s - have demanded an apology from the government following one issued by Australia to victims on Wednesday.

A group of survivors initially won a legal battle against Grünenthal, but the decision was later overturned on appeal in 2013 stating that it had no control over the national distributors illegally ...

She said some doctors had never heard of thalidomide and did not understand survivors’ problems. “It’s not just the missing limbs. There’s so much internal damage as well,” Jackson said.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Survivors of the harmful morning sickness drug thalidomide were in the public gallery Wednesday when Australia’s Parliament made a national apology to them on the ...