Posted by Ivo Cerckel on September 27th, 2009

http://bphouse.com/honest_money/2009/09/27/video-why-they-needed-thalidomide/

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Watch this Canadian video.

Here’s why our Masters did it.

A B-word in the plural comes to mind.

De l’efficacité des prothèses
Date de diffusion : 21 février 1964
http://archives.radio-canada.ca/sante/sante_publique/dossiers/65-865/
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4 Responses to “Video why they needed thalidomide”
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1. Ivo Cerckel Says:
September 28th, 2009 at 9:19 am e

The video clearly says that (the effects of) thalidomide was (were) known since many years and certainly before 1957.

http://bphouse.com/honest_money/human-testing/

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Thalidomide was definitely known in the year 1938 and [its] defects were noted in Phoenix, AZ (USA) in a medical journal that year. It was known as a cure for {Hansen]’s Disease and made by [Richardson]-Merrill Co. in [Cincinnati], OH (USA). I don’t know what action was taken, but a young female doctor named Frances Oldham Kersey (or Kelsey) recognized its dangers. Theodore, Princeton, WV/USA
(reaction under From The Times April 4, 2008 Thalidomide: 50 years on victims unite to seek more compensation Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article3671815.ece

Kelsey was the lady who in 1960 only joined the US of A Food and Drugs Administration (FDA).

Once there, she further delayed thalidomide’s approval (thalidomide was marketed since 1957)
and was given a Presidential award by US of A president Kennedy for that delay.

Wikipedia says
that Kelsey is credited SINCE NINETEEN THIRTY-EIGHT with her interest in teratogens – that is, drugs that cause congenital malformations,
that 1938 was the date of the creation of the FDA,
and that Kelsey managed to be appointed there in 1960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Oldham_Kelsey

Thalidomide was marketed since 1957.

Kelsey was only appointed in the FDA in 1960.

How can she get (all) the credit for having ‘saved’ the US of A from it?