The Nation - News from Feb. 5, 1985
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Trial began in Cincinnati in a nationwide case pitting a pharmaceutical company against hundreds of claims that its anti-nausea drug Bendectin caused birth defects in the children of women who took the drug during pregnancy. Nearly 1,000 lawsuits against Merrell Dow Inc., a Reading, Ohio, drug manufacturer, have been consolidated in the federal court trial.
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