Social media users are falsely claiming that the drug thalidomide was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the 1950s or 1960s. Thalidomide was marketed internationally to pregnant ...

Thalidomide has undergone one of the most remarkable transformations in modern medicine, evolving from a drug responsible for ...

As part of Women’s History Month, WTOP explores the story of one Food and Drug Administration medical officer who persisted in asking questions and prevented more mothers from taking a drug that could ...

C. Jean Grover, age 6. Like many children of women who took thalidomide, she has shortened “seal-like” limbs of phocomelia, previously a very rare syndrome, From “Wonder Drug: The Secret History of ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian woman has won a multi-million dollar payout from UK company Diageo Plc, the local distributor of the drug Thalidomide that caused birth defects in thousand of ...

A rapidly approved drug known as thalidomide was not rigorously tested before being prescribed to pregnant women, ultimately leading to “malformations in newborns” born to women who were prescribed ...