CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Survivors of the harmful morning sickness drug thalidomide were in the public gallery Wednesday when Australia’s Parliament made a national apology to them on the 62nd ...
Sixty-five years ago this fall, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey made history for doing something that might seem remarkably ordinary: she served as the proverbial red tape of the federal bureaucracy. She ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Morton Mintz in 1971 - Gerald Martineau/The Washington Post via Getty Images Morton Mintz, who has died aged 103, was the ...
In the mid-1970s, while I was a visiting professor in Brazil, I supervised three coordinated masters theses studying the psychological development (cognitive, emotional, and motoric) of Thalidomide ...
A study points to the possibility that thalidomide derivatives are potentially suitable for treating cancer. Thalidomide was marketed in the 1950s as a sleeping pill. It later gained sad notoriety for ...