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 ...

More than five decades on, the battle for justice over birth defects caused by the drug thalidomide continues in only one European country: Spain. Spanish victims of thalidomide are the only ones ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Morton Mintz in 1971 - Gerald Martineau/The Washington Post via Getty Images Morton Mintz, who has died aged 103, was the ...

In the 1950s and '60s, thousands of babies were born around the globe with shortened limbs. Their arms and legs looked like seal flippers, and they were often missing fingers and toes. They were ...

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 ...

A child affected by thalidomide is fitted with prothestic arms. Photo: DPA A court ordered the German maker of the banned pregnancy drug thalidomide to compensate Spanish victims on Wednesday who ...

Sold outside the United States as a sedative and morning sickness treatment in the 1950s and 1960s, thalidomide caused thousands of babies to be born with malformed arms and legs. In the wake of the ...

Laura Kendall was born in Fairfield with a birth defect caused by the drug Thalidomide. That defect has left her with a prosthetic left arm. Thalidomide was prescribed to expectant mothers in the ...

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 ...