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Wonder Drug by Jennifer Vanderbes

Wonder Drug

The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

by Jennifer Vanderbes

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  • Jun 2023, 432 pages
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very highly recommended, thoroughly researched investigation
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer Vanderbes is a very highly recommended, thoroughly researched investigation of thalidomide in the US and beyond.

Thalidomide represents a shocking and alarming example of pharmaceutical negligence. Many people know of the severe birth defects suffered by babies in Germany and England when pregnant women were given the supposedly safe thalidomide early in their pregnancies. Few know that in 1959 the William S. Merrell Company was distributing samples of it to doctors for clinical trials. The company describing it as amore
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