[nickcarraway]

thalidomide

Only in Europe and maybe elsewhere. Frances Kelsey, a Canadian woman who worked at the FDA, denied it's approval, so it was never used by the public in the U.S., but it was in Canada.

[DiogenesLamp]

Only in Europe and maybe elsewhere. Frances Kelsey, a Canadian woman who worked at the FDA, denied it's approval, so it was never used by the public in the U.S., but it was in Canada.

Is that true? I always thought it was used in the US. I've seen a lot of people with short and deformed arms that is one of the characteristics of it.

So Canadian medicine was screwing things up even back then.

[BipolarBob]

o it was never used by the public in the U.S., but it was in Canada.

Patently untrue. I met a thalidomide man. US citizen. He got it here.