Word: bendectin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defended Merrell Dow in a dispute over the linkage of the drug Bendectin, which it once manufactured, and birth defects in babies of women who took the drug while pregnant...
Last fall, for instance, despite ambiguous evidence, a jury ordered Merrell Dow to pay a Texas couple $33.8 million; they claimed the antinausea drug Bendectin had maimed their child in the womb. And patients around the country are lining up to sue Eli Lilly, alleging that the anti-depressant Prozac induces violent thoughts -- despite FDA findings to the contrary. In some cases, companies decide to settle out of court rather than take their chances with juries. Upjohn, for example, paid an undisclosed sum to a woman who claimed the drug Halcion had driven her to commit murder. Most doctors believe...
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