Thelidomide - A Drug That Can't Kill You

Germans were consuming one million doses of thalidymide per dod, grunantall ya. Grunantal and the american company they licensed with were looking at a fortune in potential profits if they could sell this in the united states. With so much money at stake and such widespread adoption overseas us, approval was seen as a formality. But an fda official named francis kelsey insisted on hard evidence to back the salesman's claims for the drug safety. Kelsey noted the reliance on anecdotal testimony in place of clinical data.