Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbnccv.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!bbnccv!sdyer From: sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Vitamin B6 causes Birth defects (?!) Message-ID: <475@bbnccv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-May-85 09:47:15 EDT Article-I.D.: bbnccv.475 Posted: Wed May 15 09:47:15 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 16-May-85 01:07:49 EDT References: <1584@aecom.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 8 Interestingly, "Bendectin", the morning-sickness nostrum implicated (but vindicted) in birth defects, contained vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) as one of its components. The other was some sort of antihistamine (doxylamine, I think.) -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbnccv.ARPA