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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries by women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant resulted in the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as phocomelia, as well as thousands of miscarriages. [ 1][ 2 ...
The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a significant food safety incident in China. The scandal involved Sanlu Group's milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with the chemical melamine, which resulted in kidney stones and other kidney damage in infants. The chemical was used to increase the nitrogen ...
v. t. e. The He Jiankui affair is a scientific and bioethical controversy concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who edited the genomes of human embryos in 2018. [ 1][ 2] He became widely known on 26 November 2018 [ 3] after he announced that he had created the first human ...
Tru Kids had bought Toys R Us (which also owned Babies R Us) in a 2018 liquidation sale and had attempted to resurrect the toy store chain, opening two locations in New Jersey and Texas in late 2019.
Babies R Us was bought out by WHP Global after it declared bankruptcy and liquidated in 2018. The first Babies R Us to reopen in the U.S was at the American Dream Mall last July.
Sugamo child abandonment case. The Sugamo child-abandonment case (巣鴨子供置き去り事件, Sugamo kodomo okizari jiken) was a situation uncovered in 1988 in Tokyo's Toshima Ward. It involved a mother of five children who abandoned the four surviving young children for months, resulting in the death of one. The names of the children were ...
The retailer is rolling out Babies R Us shops at a time when it needs growth drivers. Kohl’s net sales totaled $16.6 billion in the most recent fiscal year, which ended in early February. That ...
Coin-operated-locker babies or coin-locker babies ( Japanese: コインロッカーベイビー, romanized : koinrokkābeibī, lit. 'coin locker baby') are victims of child abuse often occurring in Japan, in which infants are left in public lockers. There are two main variables that account for the differences in frequency and the type of these ...