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The British Thalidomide Children's Trust was set up in 1973 as part of a £20 million legal settlement between Distillers Company and 429 children with thalidomide-related disabilities. In 1997, Diageo (formed by a merger between Grand Metropolitan and Guinness, who had taken over Distillers in 1990) made a long-term financial commitment to ...
In the UK, the British pharmaceutical company The Distillers Company (Biochemicals) Ltd, a subsidiary of Distillers Co. Ltd (now part of Diageo plc), marketed thalidomide throughout the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, under the brand name Distaval, as a remedy for morning sickness. Their advertisement claimed that "Distaval can be given with ...
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 .
Lorraine Mercer MBE is a British thalidomide survivor, painter, lace maker, and carriage driver with the RDA. Mercer was a representative of the global thalidomide community as a bearer of the Olympic Torch in 2012 for her country. [1] [2] Her chariot was adapted to carry the Olympic torch safely above her head away from the oxygen she needs.
Following World War II, DCBL purchased the facility from the UK Government. [14] Distillers was also responsible for the manufacture of the drug Thalidomide in the United Kingdom. [15] Thalidomide had been developed by Grunenthal with whom, in July 1957, DCBL signed a sixteen
Alexander Leslie Florence, also called Leslie Florence (1927 – 26 March 2018) was a Scottish general practitioner, known for his letter on his observations of neurological side effects of thalidomide, published on 31 December 1960 in the British Medical Journal, and noticed by Frances Kelsey. [1] [2] [3]
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]
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.