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Frances Oldham Kelsey: Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey receiving the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from President John F. Kennedy, in 1962
 
 

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Name: Frances Oldham Kelsey
Birth Date: 1914
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Canadian
Gender: Female
Occupations: pharmacologist, physician

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Frances Oldham Kelsey became nationally famous in 1962 when she prevented the sedative drug thalidomide from entering the United States. Thalidomide was found to have caused birth defects in 10,000 European children in the late 1950s and early 1960s....


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Born July 24, 1914Vancouver Island,British Columbia, Canada Pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey. © Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey made a name for herself as someone...
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Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey, Ph.D., M.D., (b. 24 June 1914) is a naturalized American pharmacologist, most famous as the reviewer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who refused to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns...


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FDA Medical Reviewer Leaves Her Mark On History It was early 1942 and war was raging in the jungles of the Pacific. In addition to fighting the Japanese, Allied troops found themselves under attack by malaria-carrying mosquitoes. And since enemy soldiers had...


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