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 ...

“The question is going to be, ‘Why now?’” said Steve Berman of Hagens Berman. “The answer is that medical science has advanced. We now understand the mechanism by which Thalidomide works. There’s been ...

Australia’s prime minister has given a national apology to survivors of the thalidomide scandal and their families. It comes over 60 years after the morning sickness drug started causing birth defects ...

Photos and news stories about babies born without legs or arms sent a shock wave of fear through young mothers all over western Europe, the United Kingdom and the U.S. 50 years ago. The culprit was ...

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 ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Victims of thalidomide said on Saturday an apology from the German inventor of the drug that caused birth defects in thousands of babies around the world was too little too late.

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 ...

The Taoiseach says he will meet with thalidomide survivors amid growing calls for a State apology this year. Survivors' groups are hoping that 2026 is the year they receive a State apology, with ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Survivors of the harmful morning sickness drug thalidomide were in the public gallery Wednesday when Australia’s Parliament made a national apology to them on the 62nd ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, the sedative Thalidomide was withdrawn after thousands of mothers gave birth to disabled babies. That ageing Thalidomide generation now faces rising care bills - but some hope a ...