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What former USD Faculty member was instrumental in blocking a birth-defect-causing drug from use in the United States?

  • Writer: Doris Peterson
    Doris Peterson
  • Mar 20, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

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Dr. Frances Kelsey.

In 1960, while at the Food and Drug Administration,  she refused to approve release of thalidomide in the United States due to inadequate testing.

For a portrait of Dr. Kelsey at the University of South Dakota, see the Digital Library of South Dakota.

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