Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

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8220A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.82218212Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain A 8220fascinating and compassionate8221 (People) account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told story of its American survivors.In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exciting new wonder drug already popular around the world. Touted as a sedative without risks, thalidomide was handed out freely, under the guise of clinical trials, by doctors who believed approval by the Food and Drug Administration was imminent. But in 1960, when the application for thalidomide landed on the desk of FDA medical reviewer Frances Kels

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Frances Oldham Kelsey received a medal from President John F. Kennedy and once appeared on a list of the most admired women in the world. Virtually unknown now, she was an FDA scientist who stood up to a bullying pharmaceutical company. Her method? Blocking the approval of a drug called thalidomide that was so infamous it ended up in a Billy Joel song and a poem by Sylvia Plath. The move spared thousands of American babies from terrible birth defects, so why is her legacy so complicated?

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