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In 1960, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey faced a tough choice between two job offers at different federal agencies in the Washington area. She chose the Food and Drug Administration, she later said, because ...

(NEW YORK) — A noted Canadian-American pharmacologist died Friday at the age of 101. Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey died Friday in London, Ontario after a long career in pharmaceuticals. Kelsey’s claim to ...

Unless you are of “a certain age”, the name Frances Oldham Kelsey might not ring a bell. Yet, there is a strong South Dakota connection to her, along with a street in Sioux Falls that bears her name, ...

Two prominent Democrats, Senator Kennedy and Congressman Henry Waxman, vehemently opposed Charles Everett Koop’s nomination as surgeon general, yet both men would become allies as Koop became a ...

Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, whose tireless efforts uncovered a link between the drug thalidomide and severe birth defects, has died at age 101. In 1960, Kelsey was the new medical officer at the Food ...

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey wanted more information to prove its safety ...

FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey saved American lives by refusing to approve thalidomide. But millions of pills had been sent to doctors in the U.S. for so-called clinical trials ...