A pharmaceutical company had a new drug - a sedative for pregnant women. Already prescribed across Europe.
Already making millions. They needed one FDA reviewer to sign off on it. They got her.
She was one month into the job. She read the application. The safety data wasn't there. She asked for more. They called her office 50 times. Crowded her office. Called her names she said you wouldn't print. She kept saying no.
Then the reports started coming from Europe. Babies born without arms. Without legs. The one thing connecting their mothers - the drug sitting on her desk waiting for her signature. In America - 17 babies were affected. In Europe -10,000.
Congress passed the Kefauver-Harris Amendment that same year. Every drug in America had to prove it was safe before reaching a single patient. Because of her. Her name was Frances Oldham Kelsey. Her acceptance letter had said Dear Mr. Oldham. They hought she was a man.
I lost it when the grandma from Encanto was forgiven like nothing happened after having created generational trauma for every single one of his children and grandchildren and DISOWNING HER SON for being different just to then hug him like he hadn't been living ISOLATED AND LIKE A RAT HIS WHOLE LIFE because of her.
No, everything is not magically okay with a hug. BAD thing to teach kids.
inventaram esse dispositivo antiestupro em 2005 que prende no agressor. não foi pra frente porque especialistas alertaram que o homem preso e com dor poderia matar a vítima na hora. o dado mais deprimente é esse: até a autodefesa dela vira risco pra ela.
Your daughter just got her first period.
Do not tell her she is a woman now.
Tell her what estrogen does.
Tell her what progesterone does.
Tell her her cycle has four phases and each one will feel different.
Give her information. Not a new identity.
Hoy Lumumba se tapó la boca y simuló una pistola en la cabeza como protesta por el silencio internacional ante uno de los conflictos más activos del mundo, que ha dejado miles de desplazados en el este de RD Congo.
ESTO SÍ ES UN INFLUENCER DE VERDAD. 🇨🇩👏