Tag: Thalidomide
Thalidomide: Impact and Legacy After Sixty Years
In September 2024, a group of American thalidomide survivors and their families headed to Washington, D.C. to advocate for government support. This marked over 60 years since Frances Oldham Kelsey, a medical examiner at...
Uncovering the Dangers of Thalidomide: Medical Investigation and Insights
It’s the early 1960s, and Widukind Lenz, a German pediatrician, is going door to door in his efforts to find out what is causing an epidemic of babies born with shortened limbs and other...