Contergan - new money for the victims - Journal (english) 08.05.2008 16:00 UTC
Simon PuehlerMay 8, 2008
It is known as the biggest tragedy in the history of the pharmaceutical industry. The sleeping drug Thalidomide led to thousands of birth defects in the late 1950s and 1960s. The drugmaker Grünenthal, which developed Thalidomide, announced Thursday that it will pay an extra 50 million euros into the trust fund it set up decades ago to compensate victims.