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Prior to the development of mifepristone, the FDA-approved abortion pill that is subject to a pending Supreme Court ruling, drug manufacturers like Chichester Chemical Co. sold women fake abortifacients through coded advertising. The company was based in Philadelphia, in present-day Graduate Hospital.
I learned over the weekend that a historic figure in science-based medicine has died. If you know anything about the history of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), you will know this woman's name, Frances O. Kelsey, MD, PhD. It turns out that Dr. Kelsey died on Friday at the age of 101. Somehow I missed the news on Friday, but once the story showed up in my news feeds over the weekend, I knew I had to make her today's topic.