Thalidomide Birth Disaster

Thalidomide Birth Disaster

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  • Thalidomide Birth Disaster - Uncover the tragic history with Ava Grey
    Join host Ava Grey as she uncovers how a "harmless" medication caused one of history's worst pharmaceutical disasters, affecting tens of thousands across 46 countries. This investigation reveals institutional failures and corporate manipulation behind the thalidomide tragedy—and exposes why the same systemic fractures still threaten public safety today.
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    1 min
  • Thalidomide - The Reforms That Came Too Late and Still Aren't Enough
    Host Ava Grey examines post-thalidomide regulatory reforms that reshaped drug approval worldwide. Between 2001 and 2010, 71 FDA-approved drugs received severe safety warnings an average of four years after patients began taking them. She explores whether the promise of "never again" has been kept or repackaged.
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    37 min
  • Thalidomide Birth Disaster - The Woman Who Said No and the Governments That Didn't
    Host Ava Grey examines how FDA pharmacologist Frances Kelsey blocked thalidomide from the U.S. market in 1961 while Canadian and British regulators failed to act swiftly after the drug's dangers emerged, resulting in thousands of preventable birth defects. The episode explores regulatory failures across three countries and questions whether systems that depend on individual heroism can truly protect public safety.
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    34 min
  • Thalidomide Birth Disaster - The Pill They Promised Was Safe
    Join Ava Grey as she examines the thalidomide disaster of the 1950s-60s, when a sedative caused devastating birth defects in over 10,000 children across 46 countries, exposing failures in pharmaceutical testing that reshaped modern drug approval.
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    31 min

About Thalidomide Birth Disaster

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Host Ava Grey investigates how thalidomide, marketed as safe, caused a global birth disaster affecting 20,000 children across 46 countries. She exposes regulatory failures, celebrates the FDA scientist who prevented U.S. tragedy, and questions whether modern drug approval systems have truly learned from history's deadliest pharmaceutical mistake.