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 ...

Thalidomide was originally marketed in several countries as a morning sickness drug by Chemie Grünenthal in the late 1950s and early 1960s until its use was linked to thousands of deaths and birth ...

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.

LONDON (Reuters) - Half a century after the launch of the notorious morning sickness pill thalidomide, its surviving victims are demanding 4 billion euros ($6.3 billion) in compensation from the ...

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This year marked two important anniversaries in the regulatory community. In the US, regulators noted the 50 th anniversary of the passage of the Kefauver-Harris Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug ...

The Queenslander was one of 10,000 babies around the world whose life was cruelly impacted by a global pharmaceutical ...

A Calgary woman born with a thalidomide-caused birth defect says thalidomide victims deserve yearly compensation from the federal government. But instead it caused thousands of babies around the world ...

Payments made from a trust to victims of thalidomide are to be tax-free, the government has announced. The Treasury said the move would be worth £1m a year in lower tax and increased tax credits for ...

A British charity has rebuffed the first apology for half a century from the German company which invented birth defect pregnancy drug Thalidomide. The Grunenthal Group said in a statement it "regrets ...