Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - An April 21, 1969 photo from files showing a view of a laboratory of the pharmaceutical company "Chemie Gruenenthal", in ...

Melbourne thalidomider Lyn Rowe (right) won her legal case for compensation in 2012, at age 50. Supplied by the Rowe Family/AAP Welcome to part two of the Conversation’s thalidomide series. In this ...

Between 1957 and 1962, more than 10,000 babies were born with physical abnormalities caused by the drug thalidomide. Out of this came stricter regulations for approving new drugs and vaccines that ...

An international study co-authored by researchers at Tokyo Institute of technology (Tokyo Tech) and Tokyo Medical University has unveiled a detailed view of how thalidomide, one of the most notorious ...

Geoff Adams-Spink has been campaigning for justice for the global thalidomide community "The battle for financial redress will not end with this apology," he says. "Thalidomide has deprived us of the ...

In a monumental victory for public health, California will no longer allow parents to forgo school vaccinations for their kids because of “personal belief.” California Gov. Jerry Brown stated that his ...

BERLIN (AP) -- 1946— Gruenenthal, a German pharmaceutical, is founded in Stolberg. 1954 — Gruenenthal discovers and patents thalidomide. 1957 — Thalidomide is first sold as Contergan in Germany. It is ...