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Link: https://www.npr.org/2026/09/26/nx-s1-5979047/us-thalidomide-survivors-want-recognition-government
Doctors were already giving thalidomide to thousands of U.S. patients, including pregnant women. Some children whose mothers were given the drug during pregnancy were born with severely deformed limbs. Those children are now adults, and they want the federal government to formally acknowledge their existence. "We go to doctors today who say it didn't happen here in the United States. Oh yeah, it did," said Gwen Riechmann, who was born with phocomelia, the signature shortened limb deformity caused by thalidomide. |
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