Re: morning sickness drugs
From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:25:12 -0600 (CST)
Julie,
I don't see a question here, just a copy of an old posting. Did the big
bad computer gobble another one up?
At Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Julie wrote:
>
>At Tue, 13 May 1997, Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. wrote:
>>My son and daughter both have chest bone deformities and I have always felt that the bendectin caused them. I was extremely sick and my doctor had me taking 4 a day from the time I first got pregnant through my whole pregnancy.
>Any information you could give me would be appreciated. My children are
>now 20 and 18 years old but I have always wondered if there was anything
>that could be done for them.
>>At Tue, 13 May 1997, Jody wrote:
>>>
>>>Recently my mother mentioned to me that she took some kind
>>>of morning sickness pill while she was pregnant with me.
>>>This was given to her by a military doctor in 1970, but she
>>>does not remember the name of the drug. She later heard
>>>that the drug could cause tumors in the children of mothers
>>>who took it. Does anyone know what this drug may have been and what
>>>side effects it might cause?
>>
>>Might have been Bendectin. It was taken off the market after the
>>company that produced it *successfully* defended several lawsuits
>>against it, proving that no abnormalities were caused by the drug.
>>
>>--
>>Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
>>OBGYN.net U.S. Representative, New York
>>Great Neck, New York
>>http://www.obgyn.net/states/bios/marchbein.htm
>>http://www.obgyn.net/women/heroes/harveym.htm
>>
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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG
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