Wonder DrugLonglisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non Fiction The shocking, never before told story of Americas thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956, a baby girl was born without ears. She was the first victim of the notorious thalidomide epidemic. There would be over 10,000 more across 46 countries. For years, the world believed the United States had avoided the catastrophe. After Frances Kelsey at the Food and Drug Administration