CALL The Midwife fans will be left disappointed if they were planning to tune in this Sunday, as the drama has been moved off ...

We also saw the effects of thalidomide, the introduction of the contraceptive pill. Series six: Set in 1962 and domestic violence was at the centre of the season. Other themes included FGM ...

Alison suffers from phocomelia - limb deficiency - and has deformities similar to those of Thalidomide victims. But because she was born in April 1965, three years after what was believed to be ...

The state government has agreed to spend $1m providing space for female prisoners to store their pregnancy casts, fishing ...

The survivors were on Parliament Hill to push Ottawa into further action to help the victims of thalidomide — in particular, a $250,000 lump sum in compensation per person, up from the current $ ...

Correspondence relating to Pauline Skelly's retirement in 1977 including retirement cards, along with a memorial card for Pauline Skelly (2011) and a printed article titled "Thalidomide victim recalls ...

In the case of Corby, the Sunday Times reported on the poisonings in 1999. Eleven years later, the council agreed to pay compensation to victims. A story doesn’t always create immediate shockwaves, it ...

Rory Sykes, 32, and Elizabeth Morgan, 79, are the 19th and 20th victims to be identified Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for ...

Thalidomide is a white powder sparingly soluble in water, and for that reason it was administered to rabbits as a suspension in physiologic saline solution containing 0.5 per cent ...

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) provides funding as a member of The ...

A Jan. 14 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) suggests California wildfire victims may only get several hundred dollars in federal aid. “Bye den just gave $3.5 billion for Ukrn gov pension ...

The American Red Cross is searching for new shelter accommodations after the Pasadena Convention Center requested the removal of victims of the Los Angeles wildfires in order to return to its ...