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Thalidomide Survivor Speaks Out in People magazine
Learn more about the American thalidomide survivors' quest for justice more than 60 years after their mothers unwittingly took samples of the unapproved drug while pregnant in the July 25 2023 issue of People magazine
Interview with Wonder Drug author Jennifer Vanderbes on The Jimmy Malone Show
Cleveland Radio host and comedian Jimmy Malone talks with author Jennifer Vanderbes about the hidden history of thalidomide in America. Jimmy remembers the incomplete story told in magazine and newspaper stories in the 1960s.
Harvard Public Health Magazine reviews Wonder Drug:
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 this July 17 article:...
Washington Post reviews “Wonder Drug” to be published by Random House on June 27, 2023
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 House on...
NPR interview with Jennifer Vanderbes on her new book “Wonder Drug”
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe interviewed author Jennifer Vanderbes about her new book, Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims on Weekend Edition June 25, 2023.
New book from Random House will tell the true story of thalidomide in America for the first time
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 was the first...
Continued thalidomide research will honour survivors and help future patients
by Neil Vargesson; printed originally in The Press and Journal, November 29, 2021 In late November 1961, the controversial drug thalidomide was withdrawn from the market. It had been approved as a safe and effective sedative in 1957 and was later shown to be useful in...
German family behind Thalidomide apologises to victims
FROM THE IRISH TIMES, NOVEMBER 29, 2021, by Derek Scally in Berlin, Olivia Kelly, Dublin Editor. Photo by Nick Bradshaw The Government is coming under increasing pressure to issue a State apology to Thalidomide survivors after the German family behind the drug...
USTS launches campaign to find survivors
This week, US Thalidomide Survivors launches a nationwide Facebook campaign to try to locate -- as many as possible -- thalidomide survivors in our country! The campaign consists of two Facebook posts, featuring two of our non-profit organization officers (Gwen...
Podcast: Neil Vargesson on “Thalidomide –The Drug and Woman That Changed the FDA Forever”
In a recent Inside Out Quality podcast, Neil Vargesson (who was part of our USTS Online Speaker Series in 2020) was the guest, alongside Justine Peterson, P.A. They covered an overview of Thalidomide and its launch in Europe in the late 1950s. Clinical trials weren't...