Carolyn Beatrice Parker came from a family of doctors and academics and worked during World War II as a physicist... more

Anna Von Mertens' thoughtful new exploration of Henrietta Swan Leavitt's life describes and illuminates Leavitt's decades-long study of stars, including... more

Although initial clinical trials of tamoxifen as a treatment of breast cancer were positive, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) did not... more

In the early 1960s, chemist Dr. Dora Richardson synthesized a chemical compound that became one of the most important drugs... more

While researching her book about thalidomide in America, Jennifer Vanderbes discovered that there were far more survivors in the U.S.... more

It’s September 2024 and a group of American thalidomide survivors arrive in Washington D.C. to lobby the government for support.... more

It’s the summer of 1962 and thalidomide has been off the market in Europe for months. But in the U.S.,... more

It’s 1961 and Widukind Lenz, a German pediatrician, is going door to door in his efforts to find out what... more

It’s the early 1960s and the German pharmaceutical market is booming. A sedative called Contergan is one of the bestselling... more

In this first chapter of a new five-part season we meet Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, a physician and pharmacologist who... more