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No evidence of medical trials carried out on children in north s mother and baby homes Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, Co Down Margaret McGuckin, from Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse (Savia). Picture by Liam McBurney, Press Association There is no evidence that children in mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland were used in medical trials, the independent chair of a working group into the homes has told a victims group. Survivors in the Republic have already spoken of their shock at learning that children in several homes had been used in 13 medical trials, including for an experimental 5 in 1 vaccine against polio, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus. ....
AN ARCHAEOLOGIST who discovered a mass grave containing the remains of 429 children in a Belfast bogland has called for a commission to investigate mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland. ....
The number of women who went through mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland is expected to be “significantly” higher than previously estimated.Judith Gillespie, chairwoman of the inter-departmental ....
The number of women who went through mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland is expected to be "significantly" higher than previously estimated. ....