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Frances Kelsey, doctor who kept thalidomide out of US, dies aged 101

• bootload 11y ago
  "Kelsey was a medical officer for the US Food and Drug Administration in the early 1960s when she raised concerns about thalidomide, a drug that was being used in other countries to treat morning sickness and insomnia in pregnant women. ... Despite pressure from the makers of thalidomide to approve the drug in the US, Kelsey refused." I hadn't heard this before. It is significant as thalidomide caused a lot of trouble with a generation of kids in Commonwealth & other countries.