The os petrosum, on the other hand, is, and malformations of the os petrosum are common in thalidomide victims, resulting in damage to the inner ear and deafness. It is difficult to explain these ...

A DRUG prescribed to 300,000 women has been dubbed ‘the hidden thalidomide’ as it’s feared to have triggered rare cancers.

Whistleblower Iain Smith, this weekend, revealed he had to inform Grace’s mother about the release of the report, which has ...

Suzanne Massey, 56, from Liverpool, believes an anti-miscarriage drug given to her mum while she was pregnant is to blame for ...

DES became the first identified cause of "prenatal drug-induced cancer in humans" and was subsequently banned in 1971. The ...

Terrible though thalidomide was, it stopped at those children ... government to set up a compensation scheme. Thousands of DES victims have sued pharmaceutical companies in the US, France and ...

The identities of the victims in the two cases cannot be reported ... originating in associations with birth defects caused by thalidomide, a drug sold in the 50s and 60s. However McNulty-Doyle ...

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 ...