staff reporter in a major crackdown, the food and drug administration (fda) has unearthed a major substandard medicine racket in a government-operated hospital and seized 21,600 tablets of ciprofloxacin. shockingly
It was one of Germany's biggest medicine scandals: The drug thalidomide was supposed to help pregnant women, but in the end, it caused malformations in thousands of children. DW's Melina Grundmann met a man whose entire life was affected by the drug.