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 ...

LONDON, Oct 2 -- A campaign group representing victims of the Thalidomide scandal four decades ago met Monday with a compensation organization to claim it has proof that the drug can trigger birth ...

In “Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and its Hidden Victims,” Jennifer Vanderbes relates the efforts by Frances Kelsey at the Food and Drug Administration that ...

A hundred victims in Australia and New Zealand were left to struggle unaided for 40 years until Ken Youdale of the Australian Thalidomide Trust and lawyer Peter Gordon won a class action suit ...

Today that plan is a working reality, and throughout Germany, despair for the thalidomide victims has given way to understanding and hope. No Lepers. An experienced medical administrator ...

Equally damning is the fact that the United States is the only developed nation that doesn’t subsidize care for thalidomide victims. Whereas countries like Britain, Spain, Denmark, Sweden ...

The government has confirmed today that it is to apologize at last to thalidomide victims for their suffering. It will add £20 million to the depleted compensation fund, which was established ...

Kim Fenton from Belfast said the German government had done a "U-turn" on assurances made to Thalidomide victims A Thalidomide victim from Northern Ireland has accused the German government of ...

The class action which covered victims in Australia and New Zealand successfully tripled the number of people in those countries to receive recognition and compensation as thalidomide survivors ...

€2 million yet to be paid in thalidomide compensation', had said that the report concerns the ex-gratia financial compensation currently being provided by the government to surviving victims of ...

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 ...