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  2. Thalidomide scandal - Wikipedia

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    Thalidomide brought on changes in the way drugs are tested, what type of drugs are used during pregnancy, and increased the awareness of potential side effects of drugs. According to Canadian news magazine programme W5, most, but not all, victims of thalidomide receive annual benefits as compensation from the Government of Canada. Excluded are ...

  3. David Mason (art dealer) - Wikipedia

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    David Leslie Mason OBE (born 15 March 1939) is a London art dealer and Thalidomide parent activist. He is the father of a daughter, Louise, disabled by thalidomide . Mason was educated at Highgate School , where he studied under Kyffin Williams .

  4. William McBride (doctor) - Wikipedia

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    McBride published a letter in The Lancet, in December 1961, noting a large number of birth defects in children of patients who were prescribed thalidomide, [9] after a midwife named Sister Pat Sparrow first suspected the drug was causing birth defects in the babies of patients under his care at Crown Street Women's Hospital in Sydney. [10]

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  6. Michaelina Argy - Wikipedia

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    Michaelina "Mikey" Argy [1] MBE (born 1962) is an English thalidomide survivor and activist. [2] [3] She is a past chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Thalidomide Trust, the organisation through which British thalidomide survivors receive financial support, [1] and is still involved in the media activities of the trust.

  7. BBC News Now - Wikipedia

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    BBC News Now, styled also as BBC News Now with Lucy Hockings, is a news programme that premiered on both UK feed and international feed of BBC News channel on 22 May 2023 as part of a refresh following the merger of the two news channels. [1] The programme is mainly hosted by Lucy Hockings.

  8. BBC presenter scandal: The claims and timeline of allegations

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    The unnamed presenter has been suspended with the BBC due to meet with the Metropolitan Police on Monday

  9. Inquiry slams UK authorities for failures that killed ... - AOL

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    British authorities and the country's public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth ...