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  1. Changing the Face of Medicine | Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey 
    https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_182.html
    ... pressure when she refused to approve release of thalidomide in the United States. The drug had been ... Compliance. Dr. Frances Kelsey took her stand against thalidomide during her first month at the Food and ...
  2. Second Career: The National Foundation-March of Dimes, 1959-1974 | Virginia Apgar - Profiles in Science 
    https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/cp/feature/foundation
    ... was also accumulating about the teratogenic effects of thalidomide, a tranquilizer frequently given to pregnant women in Europe. Thalidomide, soon identified as the cause of phocomelia (absent ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Drug literature : a factual survey on "The nature and magnitude of drug literature." : report ... 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1963
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/59210400R
    ... N-phthalimido)-glutarimide as the chemical name for thalidomide,43 whereas the same compound is listed in ... and health official responsible for drug safety. The thalidomide incident underscored this fact. But even before that ...
  4. Rubella Mothers as Moral Pioneers Class 2 | NLM 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/.../education-highered1-detail2.html
    ... context of disability? What role did images of thalidomide babies play in the public conversation about rubella/ ... do these images compare to the pictures of “thalidomide babies” described by Reagan? How important do you ...
  5. Rashes to Research: Scientists and Parents Confront the 1964 Rubella Epidemic 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/.../collection-transcript14.html
    ... worse pregnancy menace than they had realized. Like thalidomide (Life, Aug. 10, 1962), it is most dangerous in early pregnancy. Unlike thalidomide, it does not deform unborn children. But it ...
  6. Changing the Face of Medicine | Helen Brooke Taussig 
    https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_316.html
    ... decade. Dr. Taussig also helped to avert a thalidomide birth defect crisis in the United States, testifying ...
  7. Changing the Face of Medicine| Making Discoveries 
    https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/mark_discoveries.html
    ... decade. Dr. Taussig also helped to avert a thalidomide birth defect crisis in the United States, testifying ...
  8. Rise, Serve, Lead! 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/...on-detail.html?imgid=1&imgName=OB12706-md
    ... pressure when she refused to approve release of thalidomide in the United States. The drug had been ...
  9. Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey, MD — research (pharmacology) | NLM)(example) 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/...nojs-detail.html?imgid=193&imgName=182_01
    ... pressure when she refused to approve release of thalidomide in the United States. The drug had been ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Cumulative index of hospital literature (1960-1964) 
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/60120460RX4
    ... M.A. 178: 336- 7 O 21 61 Thalidomide and infants: AMA Council statement. J.A.M. ... 91: 1— 24 (S) Ag 1 64 Rehabilitation of thalidomide-deformed children. (Ed) Canad.M.A.J. 88: ...
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