Stopping Thalidomide
2019-04-30 16:25:19.18387+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
How one Canadian doctor kept Thalidomde's harm from America:
The year was 1960. A new West German wonder drug, thalidomide, was about to hit the U.S. market. Just one thing stood in its way: A Canadian-born doctor, Frances Kelsey, whose work ultimately spared thousands of American lives and preventing much needless suffering. This excerpt, from the upcoming book Why Dissent Matters by William Kaplan, tells the story
Sounds like that's gotta go on my reading list...