How one woman prevented a pharmaceutical disaster
An excerpt from Frankie: How One Woman Prevented a Pharmaceutical Disaster.
Between September 1960 and November 1961, when the news broke around the world about thalidomide’s responsibility for the birth of deformed babies, Dr. Frances Kelsey — Frankie — of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Cincinnati drug company Merrell, that was desperate to launch its ten million thalidomide tablets …
