eileen cronan was one of several follow the my babies born in cincinnati where an american drug company richardson merrill had their headquarters like the german drug company merrill promoted the drug as completely safe even during pregnancy like green and al merrill had no evidence to back this up. merrill applied to the federal drug administration in 1960 for approval to bring sullivan might onto the american market and was allowed to conduct clinical trials on patients across the country now it wasn't a clinical trial at all what it was was a marketing campaign trumped up to look like a clinical trial of michael magazine it is an australian lawyer and former investigative reporter who spent years researching these a lot of my disaster what merrill wanted to do was to familiarize doctors with a drug so that once they got approval but would have doctors already to go through with a drug raid to prescribe it like crazy the little mite was now being sold in close to 50 countries worldwide in 1961 in australia dr william mcbride delivered 3 solidify babies in a few months he alerted disti

most of the miners don't use artificial limbs today but eileen cronan is an exception she wears artificial legs every day to get around . i was born with both legs missing from the nice down according to my mother i did it back to the legs pretty quickly. and if you have. you know artificial legs a lot of things go wrong you've got to go around conducting life and yeah you know you've got a skin infection and you've got to put you know leg on when you're going to do me i put the leg on i guess that's not always the best thing to do but. that's what i do. in australia artificial limbs proved to be useless and even dangerous for lynette row these legs would this on leading to walking but. terribly dangerous because every step she took she had to rope from saugus not the least little thing on the path she would just fall either strike again. lynette required the full time care of her devoted parents. for years her mother's nightly routine was always the same. and you know getting up in the north and tuning you're getting here in the. sort of it's a constant thing that. i talk to some young mo