The thalidomide babies of the 1950's know that rather directly.

Once again, ghastly pictures of limbless thalidomide babies flashed across her mind.

A year ago, Mr. Fraser went there to film a documentary on the drug and met a new generation of thalidomide babies.

Of the estimated 12,000 thalidomide babies, about 5,000 survive.

Although the drug was banned in 1962, after the wave of horribly deformed thalidomide babies, it never really disappeared.

One of the deformed thalidomide babies, all grown up.

Even one new thalidomide baby, Warren thought, would be too many.

Sue Kent tells how she is turning her experience as a thalidomide baby to positive effect.

In Germany approximately 2,500 thalidomide babies were born.