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She Said No to a Pill the World Called Safe
In September 1960, Frances Kelsey, a new medical officer at the US Food and Drug Administration, was handed what looked like an easy file: thalidomide, a sleeping pill already sold in more than twenty countries. She asked for proof that it was safe. For a year and a half she refused to approve it, while the company phoned, visited and complained to her bosses. Then the world found out why she had been right.
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