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Are You a “Thalidomide Baby”?
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...
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Researchers discover a system essential for limb formation during embryonic development
Researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have discovered a system that provides cells with information about their position within developing organs. This system, studied in developing limbs, tells cells what anatomical structure...
As thalidomide lawsuits collapse, major plaintiffs firm is sued by its own client
A news story written by Daniel Fisher was published in Legal Newsline today. PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - A long-simmering fight between the prominent plaintiffs’ law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro and several unhappy clients has escalated into open war as one of...
London Times story about US Thalidomide Survivors
The London Times published a story today about US Thalidomide Survivors. The Times New York correspondent Will Pavia was struck by the contrast between the US Survivors experience when compared with UK Survivors. In the UK, survivors were recognized and compensated in...
New York Times Story Features US Thalidomide Survivors
The New York Times published a four-part article today about US Thalidomide Survivors. Reporter Katie Thomas, tells the story of a group of people, born in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s with birth defects consistent with in utero exposure to...
New Random House Book to Reveal the True Story of Thalidomide in the U.S.
The Gatekeeper 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....
MERMAID A Memoir of Resilience: Washington Post Review
Eileen Cronin was 3 years old when she noticed that, unlike her siblings, she had no legs. Like most thalidomide survivors in the United States, Eileen was told by her mother that her disability was God's will. She only discovered the true cause of her birth defects...
MERMAID named a Best Memoir by Oprah’s Book Club
MERMAID A Memoir of Resilience, written by Eileen Cronin, a member of US Thalidomide Survivors, has been named a Best Memoir by Oprah's Book Club. Read the review on Oprah.com