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thenewgreen · 4144 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Death and Afterlife of Thalidomide - NYTimes.com
The world is undoubtably full of heros that largely go unsung. Surely she is one of them: What a sad story lil. Still, thanks for posting this, I would have otherwise never known this dark history and, unfortunately still dark present. Anyone opposed to the existence of the FDA needs to read this.In September 1960, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, a young pharmacologist who had just started working at the Food and Drug Administration, was asked to review the drug for approval but became alarmed by what she saw as the lack of rigorous scientific research supporting the drug’s safety done by Grünenthal and William S. Merrell, the United States distributor.