As a motivational speaker, Ong Boo Siong has conducted over 3,000 talks nationwide since 2009, inspiring students, parents and corporate figures. A talented guitarist, he is also working on a poetry ...

As India's gold rush in Asian Para Games increases, armless archer Sheetal Devi from Jammu and Kashmir has created history by becoming the first Indian woman to win two gold medals in a single edition ...

Shortly after thalidomide was released to market in the 1950s, a reported 10,000 infants were born with an extreme form of a rare congenital syndrome -- phocomelia -- which caused death in 50 percent ...

Francis Xavier Kinjin @ Oliver Putut, 39, born with phocomelia, epitomises resilience. A rare congenital disorder has not stopped the Kadazan man from dreaming big and pushing himself to achieve ...

A couple at Kwahu Mpreaso has been forced to relocate to Koforidua after facing stigma and pressure to end the life of their baby, who was born with Phocomelia, a congenital condition that results in ...

A four-year-old boy, pictured August 24, 2017, that suffers from Amelia-Phocomelia Syndrome learned how to walk for the first time in a new viral video. Katie Whiddon/Instagram A Texas family shared a ...

The recent research report on the Global Phocomelia Market is aimed to offer data regarding the major work that is happening in the industry over the last few years. It gives a complete analysis of ...

- an abnormality of development in which the upper part of an arm or leg is missing so the hands or feet are attached to the body like stumps; rare condition that results from taking thalidomide ...

For example, although the drug was extensively used in Europe from late 1957, no reports of alleged teratogenicity appeared until 1961. As late as October, 1960, 2 deformed infants, on exhibit at ...