Up to 20,000 babies may have been affected by exposure to valproate since it was introduced. Some, like the government’s patient safety commissioner, Dr Henrietta Hughes, have branded this “a scandal ...
The Irish Thalidomide Association has said it is ... will life be any better for disabled people? And crucially, how will we know that?" She said it is key for the new disability strategy to ...
I spoke with one of those people in 2012 (when researching the use of thalidomide). He told me his chest muscles had never developed, a known thalidomide side-effect if the drug was taken at a ...