You may or may not be old enough to remember the h...  ...r may not be old enough to remember the horror of Thalidomide , a drug that caused thousands of birth defects in...  ...in 1960. Read her story, and how her research on Thalidomide saved American babies, at Smithsonian.

In the late1950s and early ‘60s, the drug Thalidomide was prescribed to combat morning sickness (among...  ...th a variety of birth defects. After a few years, Thalidomide was recalled and the very name became synonymous...  ...ing for any possible drug available, he came upon thal...