Frances Kelsey, the FDA official whose work in the early 1960s kept thalidomide from ravaging the US population as it had the European and Canadian ones, and led directly to the Kefauver-Harris Amendment, was born 112 years ago today. Her story is more important now than ever. tinyurl.com/4zh9e9p6
Between the Children and Catastrophe, A Woman: Frances O. Kelsey’s Victory Over Thalidomide.In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of Europe’s new wonder drug, thalidomide, to be introduced to the A...tinyurl.com