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 ...

Prof Bolanle Olawuyi, of the Department of Social Sciences Education, University of Ilorin, has appealed to parents of disabled children against hiding them due to shame or stigma. Olawuyi made the ...

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 ...

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1973: Paul Foot rails against establishment neglect of the thalidomide children By Paul Foot The drug thalidomide was withdrawn in 1961 after it was shown to have caused birth defects in ...