Show a JLPeiormity-linke-d IV By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON controversial prescription drugs contain package inserts to warn patients about their dangers This mild corrective action — far less drastic than taking a suspect drug off the market while its safety is proven — would at least give doctors and patients a chance to weigh the risks against the benefits of the medication Yet even this partial damper on sales is opposed by the drug industry let me cite one particularly shocking example of the development and marketing of a widely used but controversial drug: Bendectin It has been prescribed routinely to millions of pregnant women since 1956 for relief of sales force — received company numerous letters from physicians obtained by interest lawyers Alan Eaton Tom Tate and Jim Butler Pogge later said he had ghostdeposition doctors must board have measured Stamler’s wrong lawyer pointed out that he couldn’t merry-go-roun- d possibly have served as a combat infantryman in such a crippled condition Stamler of Orlando Fla is unable to work and has hausted his appeals ex- 191 United Feature Syndicate Inc W vs THE PEOPLE: I received hundreds of letters from individuals who have been abused by arrogant or incompetent federal bureaucrats From time to time I’ll report on some of the most flagrant cases Here are ZIP & DASH DRESSES FOR MOM $3 OFF three: — Robert Depprich was an Air Force enlisted man from 1971 to 1975 when he left to complete his college education at Penn State He stayed in the Air Force reserve Now he wants to go back on active duty as a second lieutenant with special qualifications as a loadmaster but the Air Force sayd he’s too old Depprich is 32 — Louis A Drake is a retired economics professor who bought an acre of land on Lit- loungewear take-alon- g Give her this tle Glen Lake Mich in 1967 and built a modest vacation home on it In 1970 the National Park Service notified Drake that it was going to take his property by condemnation to add to Sleeping Bear 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concocted — literally — by Merreli's research director Dr Raymond Pogge who had only three months of obstetrical training in his He simply mixed background three existing drugs together like a cocktail — Development was to be given top priority so that as a Merrell memo explained Bendectin would be ready for promotion at an upcoming meeting of the American and of Obstetrics Academy Gynecology —The FDA approved Bendectin in 1957 even though Merrell of- was The Herald Journal Sale prices thru May 9 unless otherwise stated published studies and concluded there was no increased risk of birth defects from the' use of Bendectin But the panel did come across two studies that left “residual uncertainties’’ about the drug Instead of ordering Bedttectin off the market while the uncertainties are cleared up the FDA decided to make use of a new regulation that would require package in- serts warning that the drug should be used only as a last resort This is the proposed regulation that the FDA has put on “hold" in response to the administration’s policies Meanwhile Bendectin is still on the market States My reporters Indy Badhwar and Judy Grande have examined court documents and confidential company memos that sketch an appalling record of inadequate and testing irresponsibility outright deceit Here are what the Theshew-brea- d service-connect- — Six years after Bendectin’s introduction an article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology linked the drug to deformities in newbomsi Last September an FDA adcommittee reviewed visory manufacturer Thoughts 19 bylawtodo Richardson Merrell now Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals is facing several lawsuits from women who blame the drug for severe malformations in their babies The birth defects — missing or badly deformed limbs — are reminiscent of those caused by the sedative drug Thalidomide which Merrell distributed in the United written The left As a combat infantryman in Germany Stamler was wounded by mortar fire and spent months in traction When he later complained of back problems examination showed his right leg was then nearly three inches shorter The Veterans Administration has mulishly refused to admit that the increased deformity was insisting that the draft with questions about malformations that had shown up in their patients' babies Merrell did not promptly report all this information to the FDA as it is required nausea and vomiting sworn public 5 drug still sold as FDA lags Bendectin on rabbits and noted malformations in the offspring similar to those caused by Thalidomide He recommended further testing But the disturbing findings were deleted when the Staples report was summarized for the FDA and for Merreli's — Responding to the Reagan administration's go slow" approach to more government regulation the Food and Drug Administration is planning to delay indefinitely a rule that Bendectin's Logan Utah Tuesday May ’beautiful’’ “By faith when he was born was hid three months of his parents beesuse they 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