The unknown story of the worst child-poisoning case since thalidomide ... is a group of young mothers with children with hand and feet deformities fighting hard for answers, a ruthless local ...

Born with no arms after her mother was given thalidomide while pregnant ... They told him there were some deformities but my mum didn't have a clue what was going on,' Mandy said.

The children all had a variety of birth defects, including missing or underdeveloped fingers, clubbed feet, heart defects ... child poisoning case since thalidomide, a drug that was marketed ...

It is told from the personal perspective of Trent Stephens, whose research on limb development helped to delineate thalidomide's mechanism in causing birth defects, together with historian Rock ...

Thalidomide was a widely used drug in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the treatment of nausea in pregnant women and resulted in severe birth defects. While there are 146 known registered ...