The German company that made anti-morning sickness drug thalidomide has apologised to the thousands of children born without limbs as a result of its use. Harald Stock, chief executive of pharmaceutical company Gruenenthal, said it was "very sorry".
It has taken half a century for the victims of birth defect pregnancy drug Thalidomide to receive an apology from its German inventors.
Here is a timeline of key events in the decades-long Thalidomide scandal:
The German company who manufactured anti-morning sickness drug thalidomide will apologise today. Here is the text in full of the speech.
The German company which invented the birth defect pregnancy drug Thalidomide has issued its first apology in 50 years.