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Feet of a baby born to a mother who had taken thalidomide while pregnant. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries was prescribed to women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant, and consequently resulted in the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as ...
Len and Terry Wiles c. 1970. Terrence 'Terry' Wiles (born 12 January 1962) was one of the most visible thalidomide babies born in the United Kingdom. He has since become known internationally through the Emmy Award winning [1] [2] television drama On Giant's Shoulders and the best-selling book of the same name.
Terry Wiles (right) played himself in the film On Giant's Shoulders is a 1979 BBC television film about the early life of thalidomide victim Terry Wiles , with Wiles playing himself. The drama also starred Bryan Pringle and Judi Dench and won an Emmy Award in 1980.
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, more than 10,000 children in 46 countries were born with deformities, such as phocomelia, as a consequence of thalidomide use. [75] The severity and location of the deformities depended on how many days into the pregnancy the mother was before beginning treatment, with the time-sensitive window occurring ...
A Private Matter is a 1992 American made-for-television drama film based on the true 1962 story of Sherri Finkbine, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona in the first trimester of her fifth pregnancy. She was the popular hostess of the locally produced children's television show Romper Room .
Wormwood (stylized as 'WORMWO0D') is a 2017 American six-part docudrama miniseries directed by Errol Morris [1] and released on Netflix on December 15, 2017. [2] The series is based on the life of a scientist, Frank Olson, who worked for a secret government biological warfare program at Fort Detrick, Maryland.