This is the Story of Thalidomide, a drug given to pregnant women to alleviate morning sickness. It was licensed in the UK in 1958. However, thalidomide was found to cause deformity in children born to mothers who took the drug & it was withdrawn in the early 1960s. Thalidomide caused birth defects across more than 46 nations and affected over 10,000 babies. These babies were born with missing or abnormal limbs, feet or hands. Other defects included abnormal or absent ears, heart and kidney problems, cleft palate, spinal cord defects and digestive system disorders Thalidomide was the first example of a drug that passed legal specifications and regulations without full evaluation of its safety for use in pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. and this tells the full story

Suffer the Children

Potter, Elaine

Knightly, P.

Times

Viking Adult

<p>*Destination Disaster* is a remarkable book of the politics in the (wide-body) commercial-aviation industry, and an accounting of the political warfare between McDonald Douglas and Lockheed Aircraft to gain acceptance of their designs during the early competition for wide-body commercial aircraft. One company, McDonald, pushed hard in Washington to prevent the technically more-advanced L1011 from being accepted in the commercial airline industry, only to see its candidate, the DC-10, later prove to be a safety nightmare. It is a spell-binding account of the troubles that ensued. In the end, Douglas' effort helped prevent acceptance of the L1011 for large-scale orders, and the plane ended production far too soon due to lowered order rate.</p>

Destination Disaster: From the Tri-Motor to the DC-10 - The Risk of Flying

EDDY, Paul

Page, Bruce

Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co.

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