by US Thalidomide Survivors | Mar 26, 2023 | News Coverage, US Thalidomide Story
Jennifer Vanderbes, author of “WONDER DRUG: the Secret History of Thalidomide in America and its Hidden Victims” Award-winning author Jennifer Vanderbes discovered the existence of a growing community of US survivors who had begun to find each other, and...
by US Thalidomide Survivors | Dec 30, 2021 | News Coverage
by Neil Vargesson; printed originally in The Press and Journal, November 29, 2021 In late November 1961, the controversial drug thalidomide was withdrawn from the market. It had been approved as a safe and effective sedative in 1957 and was later shown to be useful in...
by US Thalidomide Survivors | Dec 4, 2021 | News Coverage
FROM THE IRISH TIMES, NOVEMBER 29, 2021, by Derek Scally in Berlin, Olivia Kelly, Dublin Editor. Photo by Nick Bradshaw The Government is coming under increasing pressure to issue a State apology to Thalidomide survivors after the German family behind the drug...
by US Thalidomide Survivors | Nov 14, 2021 | News Coverage, News Releases
This week, US Thalidomide Survivors launches a nationwide Facebook campaign to try to locate — as many as possible — thalidomide survivors in our country! The campaign consists of two Facebook posts, featuring two of our non-profit organization officers...
by cjeangrover@yahoo.com | Mar 20, 2021 | News Coverage
Plan to tune in to the next USTS Online Speaker Series session! Daisy Polido, LMFT, will deliver a seminar specially tailored for Thalidomide survivors, who often deal with unresolved childhood trauma. Mark your calendars for March 27, 2021, 8am PDT, 11am EDT, and 4pm...
by cjeangrover@yahoo.com | Feb 21, 2021 | News Coverage
In a recent Inside Out Quality podcast, Neil Vargesson (who was part of our USTS Online Speaker Series in 2020) was the guest, alongside Justine Peterson, P.A. They covered an overview of Thalidomide and its launch in Europe in the late 1950s. Clinical trials...
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