It was a grim harvest for West Germany: 3,000 babies dead shortly after birth and another 3,000 with grotesque malformations, because their mothers had taken the sleeping-pill tranquilizer thalidomide ...

Accused of witchcraft or sorcery, children with cleft lips or palates are often driven into hiding in several African countries, forced to live as outcasts unless they receive an early operation. In ...

PHOENIX - Three decades ago, a Tucson father got the Arizona Supreme Court to rule he could sue for the costs of raising a daughter he and his wife did not want but was born because of a botched ...

I want to thank those people who commented on my posting “The Cyclops Child.” Some comments were critical; and I thank you for them especially since they bring into relief the ethical issues I wanted ...

January 1973: Paul Foot rails against establishment neglect of the thalidomide children By Paul Foot The drug thalidomide was withdrawn in 1961 after it was shown to have caused birth defects in ...

Protesters had been demanding that congenitally deformed children be included in the list for financial assistance for victims of endosulfan pesticide.. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday ...

CT scans of ancient child mummies revealed they suffered from an illness that gave them enlarged skulls, according to a new study. Photos from the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Scans of ...