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

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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 ...

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 ...

The was a minute’s silence after Mr Albanese’s national apology to victims and survivors. Mr Albanese and Mr Dutton met Thalidomide survivors and their families in Parliament House in Canberra.