delayed identification of thalidomide as the cause of an epidemic of birth defects. Stevens and Brynner vividly depict the tragedy of the so-called 'thalidomiders', and highlight the devastating ...

Eight Thalidomide victims are seeking compensation from drug makers Papers filed to the High Court on behalf of people whose mothers took the anti-morning sickness drug when pregnant in late 1950s ...

Thalidomide, a sedative that caused severe birth defects 50 years ago when it was prescribed to pregnant women, has enjoyed revived interest owing to its potency as an antiangiogenic and anti ...

When thalidomide is taken in that window ... We're pretty sure it's causing this epidemic of phocomelia. Katie Hafner: And he made an urgent plea–right there in public–that the unnamed ...

Thalidomide survivor Lisa McManus has been critical of Australia's response Australia has fallen behind many other countries in its response to one of the world's worst pharmaceutical scandals ...

“Today, on behalf of the people of Australia, our government and this parliament offers a full unreserved and overdue apology to all thalidomide survivors, their families, loved ones and carer ...

A smallpox epidemic killed between 5 and 8 million of the native population in the following two years. Over the next century, less than 2 million would survive this and other communicable ...

Loneliness. Since 2017, he has made what he's diagnosed as America's "loneliness epidemic" the center of his public-health agenda, writing several op-eds and a best-selling book and appearing on ...

In June 1832, two events stirred up political conflict in Lower Canada: the Place d'Armes by-election, which turned into a tragedy costing several lives, and the cholera epidemic. At the beginning ...

More than two millennia later, health officials are paying new attention to this old condition for a startling reason: myopia has reached epidemic levels worldwide. Myopia’s prevalence has ...

But the curves tracing the overdose epidemic tower above them all. In the space of just half a lifetime, the United States entered an entirely new world of drug death. In 1982, the year I was born ...

Scientists bring socioeconomic status at the forefront of epidemic modelling Study shows how neglecting income, education, and ethnicity affects disease spread predictions on COVID-19 data Date ...