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Wonder Drug by Jennifer Vanderbes

27 Jun 2023

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Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/90606to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wonder Drug Author: Jennifer Vanderbes Narrator: Jennifer Vanderbes Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins Release date: 06-27-23 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 37 ratings Genres: Medical Publisher's Summary: In 1959, a Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm, the William S. Merrell Company, quietly began distributing samples of an exciting new wonder drug already popular around the world. Touted as a sedative without risks, thalidomide was handed out freely, under the guise of clinical trials, by doctors who believed approval by the Food and Drug Administration was imminent. But in 1960, when the application for thalidomide landed on the desk of FDA medical reviewer Frances Kelsey, she quickly grew suspicious.

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