Short Stuff: Frances Kelsey: Hero of the FDA

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🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Who is Frances Kelsey? Well, she's a semi-unsung hero of the FDA whose work helped save a lot of kids from congenital disorders and even death. Listen and learn!

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0:57.4	Den Shorty.
0:58.4	It really is.
0:59.4	And I think the gist of it is it's a tribute to not an unsung hero, but maybe one of the
1:07.8	great heroes of the 20th century that you may not have heard of.
1:12.1	A woman named Francis Oldham.
1:13.7	Yeah, she was kind of sung.
1:16.1	Yeah, she was.
1:17.5	Definitely in her lifetime, which is great.
1:20.1	I think that there was an award created by the FDA and named in her honor.
1:25.8	They bestowed it upon her the first one in 2010.
1:29.1	So she's definitely gotten recognition, but I don't know that the average American walking
1:33.3	around knows her name.
1:35.1	Yeah, she's partially sung.
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