Word: kelsey
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...equal number of pharmacologists from the U.S. Public Health Service, a sister agency with which the FDA has hitherto maintained a sterile sibling rivalry. The new FDA head also decided to break down the Sadusk system of having one team of FDA experts, headed by Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, keep track of new drugs under investigation, and a separate team decide when these drugs should be approved for general prescription use. All this was too much for Dr. Sadusk. Last week he precipitately quit, as did his No. 2, Dr. Joseph Pisani. To replace Sadusk temporarily, Dr. Goddard named...
...officials could not get along with those in the National Institutes of Health, though they clearly had many interests in common. They could not even get along among themselves. Things looked up for a while after Dr. Frances O. Kelsey became a heroine for keeping thalidomide off the U.S. market, and after Dr. Joseph F. Sadusk Jr., with a good record as a medical educator and a practicing physician, took over as head of FDA's Bureau of Medicine (TIME, March 13, 1964). But now the Kelsey faction is warring on Sadusk, who is also the target of Representative...
...JAMES C. KELSEY...
...Frances Oldham Kelsey, Federal Food and Drug Administration medical officer, and heroine of the thalidomide drug tragedy Sc.D...
...Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Dr. Frances Kelsey, who prevented the marketing of crippling thalidomide...