It’s the early 1960s, and the German pharmaceutical market is booming. A sedative called Contergan is one of the best-selling drugs. Contergan’s active ingredient is thalidomide, and it is touted as a ...
In this first chapter of a new five-part season of Lost Women of Science, we meet Frances Oldham Kelsey, a physician and pharmacologist who joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a medical ...
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, ...