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The Thalidomide Epidemic Is on the Rise

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I have been researching thalidomide’s mechanism of action since 1972. It is the most enigmatic drug ever produced, which started causing birth defects on Christmas day 1956 and continues causing birth defects today. Since 2012, I have been evaluating thalidomide victims who have previously been excluded from financial help to victims. My research, in part, led to the announcement on 3 December 2013 by the British company representing thalidomide of an 89 million dollar settlement for 105 Australian thalidomide victims. Then, in February 2014, I was one of 25 thalidomide “experts” invited to a meeting at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva to determine the range of defects caused by the drug. After sixty years, thalidomide is still causing birth defects. The story continues.