Then, last year, Dr. Gustav Hauberg, an energetic orthopedist from the state of Lower Saxony, produced a comprehensive plan for taking care of thalidomide babies. Today that plan is a working ...

I knew about how thalidomide had affected babies years ago - and the thought that they might try it out on me was a massive shock. It was completely over-whelming. My doctors, my parents and I ...

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 ...

The Thalidomide Syndrome A mild and supposedly safe sedative taken by pregnant women has deformed the limbs and other organs of several thousand infants in West Germany, England, Canada and other ...

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 developed in the 1950s and ... It is estimated that more than 10,000 babies were affected globally, with around half dying within months of birth. While many countries banned ...

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.