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Harvard Public Health Magazine reviews Wonder Drug:

Harvard Public Health Magazine reviews Wonder Drug:

by US Thalidomide Survivors | Jul 17, 2023 | News Coverage, US Thalidomide Story, WONDER DRUG: the Secret History of Thalidomide in American and Its Hidden Victims

Richard J. Tofel, a member of Harvard Public Health’s advisory board and former ProPublica president, reviewed the “riveting new book ‘Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims’ by Jennifer Vanderbes in...
Book Review: WONDER DRUG

Book Review: WONDER DRUG

by cjeangrover@yahoo.com | Jul 13, 2023 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story, WONDER DRUG: the Secret History of Thalidomide in American and Its Hidden Victims

This book for me has been 61 years in the making. I am a character in the book — honestly, I really am. And so are a lot of my friends from U.S. Thalidomide Survivors, a nonprofit formed only a few years ago in 2018. This book is us. This book literally helped us find...
Washington Post reviews “Wonder Drug” to be published by Random House on June 27, 2023

Washington Post reviews “Wonder Drug” to be published by Random House on June 27, 2023

by US Thalidomide Survivors | Jul 2, 2023 | News Coverage, US Thalidomide Story

In the Washington Post today, Perri Klass, a professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University, reviews the new book “Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and its Hidden Victims” by Jennifer Vanderbes, to be released by Random...
Harvard Public Health Magazine reviews Wonder Drug:

New book from Random House will tell the true story of thalidomide in America for the first time

by US Thalidomide Survivors | Mar 26, 2023 | News Coverage, US Thalidomide Story

Jennifer Vanderbes, author of “WONDER DRUG: the Secret History of Thalidomide in America and its Hidden Victims” Award-winning author Jennifer Vanderbes discovered the existence of a growing community of US survivors who had begun to find each other, and...
Why we had to make “Thalidomide in the USA: the Forgotten Survivors”

Why we had to make “Thalidomide in the USA: the Forgotten Survivors”

by cjeangrover@yahoo.com | Jan 31, 2022 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story

The fact that the world still thinks there were no — or very few — thalidomide survivors born in the US is still a source of amazement for me. We have done an exceptional job, I feel, of documenting our story in this website, and traffic has increased each...
My Life in Shorthand — Chapter 3

My Life in Shorthand — Chapter 3

by GJ Pierce Leptien | Apr 24, 2021 | Blog, US Thalidomide Story

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MINISERIES Less than a year after that lonely horrid hospital stay we moved to Massachusettes (from Va.) 1st time we lived off an Army base. We had a super cool kid-friendly house cuz the entire daylight basement was turned into a playhouse for me...
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