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 ...

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Why Children With Down Syndrome Have Higher Risk of Leukemia Sep. 26, 2024 — People with Down syndrome face a higher risk of developing leukemia. Now researchers explain why, by identifying ...

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More than 1,000 people who have sought support from the vaccine damage payment scheme after being injured or bereaved as a ...

Multiple myeloma accounts for just over 10% of all blood cancers. In the United States, over 32,000 people were diagnosed with this disease in 2019. It is believed that approximately 100,000 Americans ...

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 ...

Any useful life skill can be considered a life skill. For most people, these skills include tying shoelaces, swimming, driving a car, and using a computer. However, everyone will potentially have ...

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 ...