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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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