A DRUG prescribed to 300,000 women has been dubbed ‘the hidden thalidomide’ as it’s feared to have triggered rare cancers.

Families of children harmed by a drug that caused up to 20,000 babies to be born with disabilities have welcomed calls for compensation after their plight was compared to the thalidomide scandal.

For example, although the first baby with thalidomide-related birth defects was born before the drug was widely marketed, it was fully five years before the enormity of the tragedy was appreciated.

Thalidomide is not a drug that that impinges on just one biological pathway. That complexity could explain its multifaceted effects—from its ability to induce vascular remodeling in the adult ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Kelsey is highly regarded for her work in denying approval for the medication thalidomide, which caused birth defects in babies when taken by ...

A common pregnancy drug prescribed to hundreds of thousands of expectant and new mothers has been dubbed a hidden thalidomide. More than 100 women fear their health has been impacted due to ...

A Cork woman, 95, who was given thalidomide during pregnancy has died without hearing a formal State apology for what was ...

By the 1960s, the devastating side effects of Thalidomide became alarmingly apparent: thousands of babies were born with severe deformities. Many of these infants were not given the chance to live ...

Thalidomide was a widely used drug in the late ... 40 per cent of affected infants died within a year. In 1961 an Australian midwife and a German paediatrician first raised the alarm.

Everything comes with a level of risk. Thalidomide is a medical drug that caused unexpected and serious damage to unborn babies in the 1950s and 1960s. Thalidomide was developed as a sleeping pill ...