Coming soon, from Random House, “THE GATEKEEPER: Dr. Frances O. Kelsey and the Band of Unlikely Heroes Who Foiled the Greatest Pharmaceutical Scandal of the 20th Century” is an award-winning investigative book about the thalidomide scandal of the 1960s. Written by...
Thalidomide survivors can only go so far. I am sitting right now, looking upward at a glass ceiling right above my head, so close that it concerns me. I can see where I want to go, but I just can’t get there, due to a barrier. It was placed between my goals and me, 58...
US Thalidomide Survivors published a new public Facebook page today. Please like and share our page so others can learn the truth about thalidomide in the United States.
US Thalidomide Survivors, a nonprofit organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, is looking for people born between 1957 and 1963 with defects possibly caused by their mother taking thalidomide in the first trimester of pregnancy. Thalidomide was a popular sleeping...
Summer 1979 “Oh my God! Were you a thalidomide baby?” A gray-haired man stood staring at my disfigured arms and hands. Trapped in the aisle, my heart raced. I had never heard the word thalidomide and had no idea that anything or anyone other than God was responsible...
In spite of the many blessings in my life, I’ve always felt something was missing. I didn’t even know what it was until I found it. Three weeks ago, I had the surreal experience of meeting fourteen other people who share my rare birth defect: phocomelia (deformities...
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