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The Yellow Slip That Saved Lives - and Hid a Dark Secret
The Yellow Slip That Saved Lives - and Hid a Dark Secret
Danger and salvation lived on a single yellow slip of paper that turned suspicion into a global safety system after thalidomide left thousands of children with malformed limbs. How did one form, designed by a polio survivor who delivered fifty babies from a wheelchair, become the foundation of modern drug surveillance - and then be tied to an allegation that he destroyed crucial evidence?
In this episode, we tell the life and work of William Howard Wallace Inman, from his childhood in Banstead and polio that put him in an iron lung, to…
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