Gwen Riechmann

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

Thrilled to appear on PBS this week discussing #WONDERDRUG: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims. @USThalidomide #thalidomide
https://t.co/3OdJ2LRmiv

[Thalidomide Voice @VoiceThalid]

Totally blown away by the #Australian government’s apology to #thalidomide survivors.

@USThalidomide @jvanderbes @cjeangrover

https://t.co/dYg3ERFoBA

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

An important piece about Sherri Finkbine and the #thalidomide saga by the illustrious Linda Greenhouse - with a lovely shoutout to #WonderDrug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims! @USThalidomide

[US/USA Thalidomide Survivors @USThalidomide]

Board member Aaron Arndt was in the news for his work with USTS! #thalidomide

https://t.co/9rflsz2Fdv

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

It was a thrill to speak at Yale Law School about #WonderDrug: The Secret History of #Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims https://t.co/A8MRf75hdM

[JoJoCalora @JoJoCalora]

Part Two: US Thalidomide Survivors ⁦@USThalidomide⁩ together with author Jennifer Vanderbes ⁦@jvanderbes⁩ went to Washington, D.C. to seek US Congress’ support for the “Hidden American Victims” of The Secret History of Thalidomide in America” as exposed in #WonderDrug

[JoJoCalora @JoJoCalora]

⁦@USThalidomide⁩ together with author ⁦@jvanderbes⁩ went to Washington, D.C. last week to seek US Congress’ support for the “Hidden American victims” of “the Secret History of Thalidomide in America” as exposed in ⁦@jvanderbes⁩’ book #WonderDrug

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

For decades the US gov has denied it has #thalidomide victims. Today @USThalidomide survivor Bryan Dean shared his story with Senators Duckworth & Durbin & handed them a copy of #WONDERDRUG: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America & Its Hidden Victims. An amazing moment. 1/2

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

An epic moment - @USThalidomide survivor Bryan Dean shared his story with Illinois Senators Duckworth & Durbin & they really listened. After 60+ years of the US denying the existence of scores of #thalidomide victims, Senator Durbin said: "I'll be happy to look into this." YES!

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

The most meaningful *review* I'll ever get. Thank you from bottom of my heart to my dear friends, the @USThalidomide survivors - you meet amazing people on the really long journeys. #thalidomide #wonderdrug

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

I'm calling it "Bring your kids to DC to get some justice for your friends day." 😀 The girls rose before dawn to catch a train to help @USThalidomide survivors make their case on Capitol Hill today & share #Wonderdrug the book with the US gov #thalidomide #FDA

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

Former @washingtonpost reporter Morton Mintz - 101 YEARS OLD - turned out at @PoliticsProse yesterday for my launch event for #WONDERDRUG: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims. Mintz broke the thalidomide story in 1962! @WMEBooks @USThalidomide

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

Gwen was born with phocomelia; her mother had been given #thalidomide while pregnant. Over 2,000 US doctors handed out the unapproved drug, leaving a trail of injured babies never acknowledged by the the US gov. Here I am w/Gwen in DC, setting the Senate straight. #wonderdrug

[Gwen Riechmann @Miracle2B1]

@surfrev Miss hearing your playing. Been a long time my friend.

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

What a thrill to speak with Ralph Nader about #WONDERDRUG: The Secret History of #Thalidomide in America & Its Hidden Victims. "The best investigative reporters in America didn’t uncover this story, until Jennifer Vanderbes put it together in a book."
https://t.co/5s8BvljviR

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

"With the meticulousness of a @maddow investigation, Vanderbes documents the complacency, the complicity, the collusion, the cover-ups...the action shifts from one country to the next in the manner of a John le Carré thriller." @GP_Spink @WMEBooks https://t.co/ZaVJdgdoT8

[National Endowment for the Humanities @NEHgov]

#NEHPublicScholar @JVanderbes details the secret history of thalidomide, the most notorious drug of the 20th century, and the never-before-told story of its American survivors, in her #NEHgrant-funded book “Wonder Drug.”

Learn more, here: https://t.co/oKMoEGf6Tz

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

Darren, an LP nurse, once had to give the new version of #thalidomide to a cancer patient in the same hospital where he was born in '62, to mother who had been given unnamed pills for morning sickness. #WONDERDRUG: The Secret History of Thalidomide In America & Its Hidden Victims

[Jennifer Vanderbes @jvanderbes]

@mrthalidomider @USThalidomide Of interesting note in the thalidomide story -- how many brilliant, determined American women fought to stop the drug - Elinor Kamath, Helen Taussig, Barbara Moulton & Frances Kelsey. Only Kelsey was remembered for her efforts.

[Gwen Riechmann @Miracle2B1]

@BarackObama @BarackObama pls read Wonder Drug by @jvanderbes. You won't be disappointed. #usthalidomide #settingourstorystraight