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Australian Thalidomide Lawsuit Settles

A Thalidomide lawsuit involving over one hundred people form Australia and New Zealand and settled according to news sources. Thalidomide was a prescription drug marketed and sold in the 1950s but was pulled from the market when it was linked to causing thousands of babies to be born with deformities. The British company Diageo, who now owns the firm that originally distributed Thalidomide, agreed to the settlement that is valued at approximately $81 million that will compensate the ...

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