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8220A shocking saga of pharmaceutical malpractice . . . Wonder Drug is both a first-rate medical thriller and the searing account of a forgotten American tragedy.82218212Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of PainA 8220fascinating and compassionate8221 (People) account of the most notorious drug of the twentiethcentury and the never-before-told story of its American survivors.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.Butin 1960, whenthe application for thalidomide landed onthe desk of FDA medical reviewerFrances Kelsey, shequicklygrewsuspicious.Whenshelearned that the drug was causing severe birth abnormalities abroad, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents,
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