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   Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey CM (née Oldham; July 24, 1914 – August 7, 2015) was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician. As a reviewer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), she refused to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns about the lack of evidence regarding the drug's safety. [2]

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   Frances Oldham Kelsey: ... The company continued to send in what they believed was proof of thalidomide’s safety, but Dr. Kelsey adamantly insisted on scientifically reliable evidence, which she ...

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   In 1960, during her first month at the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey took a bold stance against inadequate testing and corporate pressure when she refused to approve release of thalidomide in the United States. The drug had been used as a sleeping pill and was later proven to have caused thousands of birth deformities ...

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   Why did Frances Oldham Kelsey refuse thalidomide?

   • In 1960, during her first month at the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey took a bold stance against inadequate testing and corporate pressure when she refused to approve release of thalidomide in the United States.

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   Who is Frances Oldham Kelsey?

   • But some data on the drug’s safety troubled Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, a former family doctor and teacher in South Dakota who had just taken the F.D.A. job in Washington, reviewing requests to license new drugs. She asked the manufacturer, the William S. Merrell Company of Cincinnati, for more information. Thus began a fateful test of wills.

   Frances Oldham Kelsey, Who Saved U.S. Babies From Thalidomide, Dies …

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   Why did Dr Kelsey refuse a thalidomide application?

   • One of the first applications she was assigned was for thalidomide, which was already available in dozens of countries around the world. Dr. Kelsey, despite constant pressure from the company, refused to approve the application because of its inadequate evidence.

   Frances Oldham Kelsey: Medical reviewer famous for averting a public

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   Did Frances Oldham Kelsey help prevent children born with congenital deformities?

   • A Smithsonian magazine special report Frances Oldham Kelsey, a pharmacologist with the Food & Drug Administration, helped prevent a generation of children born with congenital deformities in the United States. Everett Collection Historical / Alamy

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   Aug 7, 2015 · Frances Oldham Kelsey, Who Saved U.S. Babies From Thalidomide, Dies at 101. 250. President John F. Kennedy gave Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey the nation’s highest federal civilian service award in ...

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   Biography. In 1960, during her first month at the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey took a bold stance against inadequate testing and corporate pressure when she refused to approve release of thalidomide in the United States. The drug had been used as a sleeping pill and was later proven to have caused thousands of birth ...

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   May 8, 2017 · In 1960, America had a stroke of luck. That was when the application to begin mass-marketing the drug thalidomide in the United States landed on the desk of Frances Oldham Kelsey, a reviewer at ...

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    Aug 7, 2015 · Frances Kathleen Oldham was born near Cobble Hill, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on July 24, 1914. Her father was a retired British army officer, and her mother came from a prosperous ...