As federal workers face mass layoffs and a government shutdown, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey's story is a reminder of what ...

Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, whose tireless efforts uncovered a link between the drug thalidomide and severe birth defects, has died at age 101. In 1960, Kelsey was the new medical officer at the Food ...

Unable to come up with an appropriate subject for a master’s thesis, a graduate student back in the 1980s was assigned the topic, “The FDA New Drug Approval Process.” How to breathe life into such a ...

In 1960, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey faced a tough choice between two job offers at different federal agencies in the Washington area. She chose the Food and Drug Administration, she later said, because ...

What has happened to the Food and Drug Administration? There was a time back in the 1960s when this watchdog agency bared its teeth. In those days, drug reviewers were rewarded for warning about ...

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FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg will honor former FDA official Frances Kelsey, MD, PhD, with the first annual Kelsey Award tomorrow the 50th anniversary of Kelsey s refusal to authorize the ...

John F. Kennedy presents the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service to Dr. Frances Kelsey in August, 1962, for her role in protecting the public health and averting catastrophic ...

When it’s broken, it can be mended, But the crack is always there. Most everyone agrees that trust in our public health leadership has gone, and the confidence in our public health system needs to be ...