Teresa Smith, 65, hopes to raise £5,000 for the neonatal unit at Liverpool Women's University Hospital.

Brian Davies said victims like him had battled for years to get justice Eight Britons who believe their disabilities were caused by Thalidomide have launched legal action against the drug's ...

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The story of Thalidomide - the drug that resulted in more than 400 disabled babies being born in the UK in the late 1950s and early 1960s - has been made into a musical by one of those affected. Actor ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The British government apologized on Thursday to sufferers from the thalidomide scandal, half a century after thousands of babies were born with birth defects after their mothers ...

Researchers may have finally figured out the mechanism of the tragic birth defects caused by thalidomide, the drug taken by pregnant women in the late 1950s as a remedy for nausea: It is thought to ...