Will I love Wonder Drug?

This remarkable story illustrates that if something in healthcare sounds too good to be true, it probably is. I had to stop listening to it before going to sleep because the compelling narrative was keeping me up at night.

The author seamlessly combined this compelling narrative with exceptional research behind the Food and Drug Administration, the heroine who prevented thalidomide approval in the United States, and the catastrophic effects of a pharmaceutical company using loopholes.

Wonder Drug covers the startling untold story of Thalidomide, a sleeping pill, in the USA.

The standard story is that the tenacity of two women Frances Kelsey and Helen Taussig supposedly kept this drug that caused horrific birth defects off the market. The facts are that drug company machinations and FDA incompetence meant thousands of pregnant women had this drug and hundreds of babies were deformed and disappeared.

Kelsey and Taussig had a token triumph, but the company escaped blame, FDA bureaucracy increased dramatically in size, and the bureaucrats seem as tightly enmeshed with companies now as they were in… show more.