Jennifer Vanderbes — whose script about FDA medical reviewer Frances Kelsey was on the Black List-inspired Athena List of unproduced screenplays about women leaders — will receive $20,000 to help ...

In 1960, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey faced a tough choice between two job offers at different federal agencies in the Washington area. She chose the Food and Drug Administration, she later said, because ...

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LONDON, Ontario -- Frances Kelsey, a Canadian doctor known for her tenacity in keeping a dangerous drug given to pregnant women off the U.S. market, has died at age 101. She died Friday morning, less ...

Unless you are of “a certain age”, the name Frances Oldham Kelsey might not ring a bell. Yet, there is a strong South Dakota connection to her, along with a street in Sioux Falls that bears her name, ...

Kelsey is highly regarded for her work in denying approval for the medication thalidomide, which caused birth defects in babies when taken by pregnant women. “Her exceptional judgment in evaluating a ...