Sir Harold Matthew Evans was a British-American journalist and writer. In his career in his native Britain, he was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, and its sister title The Times for a ye
Thalidomide, sold under the brand names Contergan, Distaval and Thalomid among others, is an oral administered medication currently used to treat a number of cancers, graft-versus-host disease, and ma
Harold Evans
…by Rupert Murdoch. While at The Sunday Times, he led the newspaper's campaign to seek compensation for mothers who had taken the morning sickness drug thalidomide, which led to their children having severely deformed limbs. In 1984, he and his wife Tina Brown moved to the United States where he became an American…
Pack of thalidomide capsules
Container of Kevadon brand of thalidomide from 1960
Baby born to a mother who had taken thalidomide while pregnant