I. Abraham Lincoln is best remembered, of course, for winning the Civil War. That epic event, however, has obscured another ...

With a figure like Frances Oldham Kelsey, pharmacologist and physician, the biographer has to take a different tack, explaining how powerful the image of thalidomide deformed babies became. Cheryl ...

The pregnant mother of two just wanted some relief for severe nausea. She was in disbelief when she was later admitted to a mental health unit.

A Cork woman, 95, who was given thalidomide during pregnancy has died without hearing a formal State apology for what was done to her family.Peggy Murphy, White’s Cross, will be buried on Saturday in ...

A 32-year-old woman visiting your rheumatology clinic says she and her partner have decided the time is right for them to ...

Whistleblower Iain Smith, this weekend, revealed he had to inform Grace’s mother about the release of the report, which has ...

Series one: Set in early 1957 and it explored the 'Baby Boom generation ... We also saw the effects of thalidomide, the introduction of the contraceptive pill. Series six: Set in 1962 and ...

Alison suffers from phocomelia - limb deficiency - and has deformities similar to those of Thalidomide victims ... Alison was sent to the baby unit at the Chailey Heritage School for the ...

Dr. Turner has taken his role in prescribing Thalidomide badly and goes out of ... middle of the street and successfully delivers the baby alive. While his job keeps him busy at all hours of ...