FDA Consumer, March 1st, 2001
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 already captured several plantations of cinchona trees, the source of the anti-malarial quinine, the search was on for an effective quinine substitute to combat the disease.
A possible treatment--in the form of a dark, inky substance--arrived for testing in the pharmacology department at the University of Chicago. Pharmacologist France...
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