Two dead infants found last week in baby hatches in Karlsruhe and Hanover sparked debates on anonymous births in Germany. A baby boy was discovered lifeless steps away from a city hospital baby hatch in Hanover on Wednesday, while an infant girl was found dead in Karlsruhe on Thursday.

The baby hatches have been in Germany since the 19th century to provide an alternative for German women to allow their unwanted babies to live. The heated box located in German hospitals has a built-in alarm that alerts medical personnel when a baby is placed inside

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Thalidomide, a bone marrow cancer drug that was banned in 1962 for causing thousands of birth defects.

The Associated Press reports the drug will be used to treat newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, a condition that affects cells in the bone marrow used to fight infection

A new study casts doubt on the value of thalidomide against bone-marrow cancer. The drug that caused ghastly birth defects a generation ago has been brought back in recent years as a promising cancer treatment.

But it did not do well in a large study done by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. They looked at newly-diagnosed multiple myeloma patients who were given thalidomide on top of an already-grueling chemotherapy regimen. The study is reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. It was paid for by Celgene, maker of the Thalomid brand of thalidomide, and the National Cancer Institute

The Thalidomide UK charity says a disabled Kenyan boy, whose parents fought to have him treated in the UK, has died.

Born without arms or legs, one-year-old Freddie Musena-Mtile died in his hometown of Malindi from a fungal infection

A recent study showed that nearly half of those patients who took the experimental drug Revlimid, showed little signs of the gene mutation which causes the disease. In other cases, the abnormality was completely eradicated.

Specialists are now saying the drug looks like the first effective treatment for people with the cancer