When former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro went to Capitol Hill last week to urge increased federal funding for blood cancer research and to tell how her own multiple myeloma ...

“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 ...

Thalidomide, a sedative sold by a German drugmaker, was said to relieve everything from anxiety to morning sickness, but it led to perhaps the greatest pharmaceutical scandal ever. About 10,000 babies ...

The drug was never licensed for sale in the U.S., so American victims of thalidomide number fewer than 20. Great Britain, however, has more than 1,000 thalidomide babies. In West Germany, where Chemie ...

William McBride, who was among the first doctors to sound an alarm about thalidomide, the sedative found to cause birth defects, but whose later career was marred by accusations of falsified research ...

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian woman born without arms and legs after her pregnant mother took the anti-morning sickness drug Thalidomide has reached a multimillion dollar settlement with the medicine’s ...

A drug once denounced for causing birth defects seems to be a promising tool in the fight against a form of blood cancer, In a late-stage study involving 270 patients, researchers looked at whether ...

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 (Reuters) - Thalidomide, a drug that caused birth defects when it was launched as a morning sickness pill half a century ago, may be useful for treating a hereditary condition that affects ...

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 ...

Thalidomide, a sedative sold by a German drugmaker, was said to relieve everything from anxiety to morning sickness, but it led to perhaps the greatest pharmaceutical scandal ever. About 10,000 babies ...