CBS Evening News - 1995-10-06

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[0:02] % on all kinds of great stuff throughout

[0:04] the store. I'll push for that. The

[0:07] Emporium power sale is on. Save 30 to

[0:10] 50% on great stuff throughout the store.

[0:13] This Saturday only at Emporium. Is it on

[0:15] now? All day Saturday. What a feeling of

[0:18] power.

[0:22] More shocking revelations from Lonie's

[0:23] book on Bert on ET.

[0:27] A serious new health warning tonight for

[0:29] pregnant women. Taking too much vitamin

[0:32] A may cause serious birth defects. After

[0:35] the hurricane, the big storm's effects

[0:38] linger from the Florida panhandle

[0:40] throughout the southeast. And now comes

[0:42] the danger of floods and the selling of

[0:45] OJ Simpson. Post trial as much as a

[0:49] million dollars in a snap.

[0:54] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:58] Rather. Good evening. For the first time

[1:00] ever, the New England Journal of

[1:02] Medicine has notified the public of new

[1:04] research before it is officially

[1:06] published. Reason to give an early heads

[1:09] up to women who are pregnant or thinking

[1:11] about it. The warning, taking too much

[1:14] vitamin A, even in doses widely sold at

[1:17] health food stores, may result in a

[1:19] variety of birth defects. Health

[1:21] correspondent Dr. Bob Arnot has the

[1:23] story. Today's troubling new findings

[1:26] were announced in a hastily arranged

[1:28] news conference at Boston University.

[1:30] Our data show that women taking

[1:33] supplements of vitamin A at levels

[1:35] greater than 10,000 international units

[1:38] per day have an increased proportion of

[1:40] babies born with selected birth defects.

[1:44] The defects which include clefted lip or

[1:46] pallet, an enlarged head and major heart

[1:48] defects can occur after o

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