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The Contraceptive Pill: Up for Debate in 1969 and Beyond

March 19, 2020 Circulating Now

By Donna J. Drucker ~ G.D. Searle’s Enovid pill came on the market for married women in June 1960 when the U.S. Food and Drug

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Making Exhibition Connections: Melnick Medical Museum

June 22, 2018 Circulating Now

National Library of Medicine traveling exhibitions are hosted throughout the United States and across the world. The host libraries, museums, and organizations plan and present

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An embossed gold shield featureing a man threatening a skeleton with a weapon labeled Microbe Killer.

Radam’s Microbe Killer: Advertising Cures for Tuberculosis

October 9, 2015 Circulating Now

In nineteenth century America, tuberculosis accounted for nearly one out of every ten deaths. Known most commonly as “consumption,” this disease was dreaded across society

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Chappelear's Bronchini, the great cure, the best of all cough cures.

Medical Advertisements after FDA

July 15, 2015 Circulating Now

By Kelsey Conway In the summer of 2014 I had the wonderful opportunity to intern with the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division.

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Note to Mr. J. C. Pearson, from Indianapolis on July 17, 1951.

A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—John Rees

May 8, 2015 Circulating Now

On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From the

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A glass bottle labeled "100 Tablets Kevadon thalidomide" from the WM. S. Merrell Company.

A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—John Swann

May 7, 2015 Circulating Now

On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From the

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A History of the FDA Notices of Judgment—Suzanne Junod

May 6, 2015 Circulating Now

On May 7, 2015, the National Library of Medicine will host a special program, “A History of the Food and Drugs Act Notices of Judgment–From

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Pure Food: FDA Notices of Judgment

October 27, 2014 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dr. Suzanne Junod, a historian in the FDA History Office. In celebration of the completion of NLM’s digital archive of

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Poster detail reads antibiotics don't work on colds...

Losing the Miracle?

June 17, 2014 Circulating Now

An interview with Maryn McKenna, who spoke at the National Library of Medicine on “Losing the Miracle? Agriculture, the FDA, and the Controversy over Farm Antibiotics.”

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