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Norplant is essentially an old contraceptive in a new package. Developed by the Population Council, an international nonprofit research group, and Wyeth- Ayerst Laboratories, a division of American Home Products Corp. of Philadelphia, the method prevents pregnancy by using the hormone progestin, which with estrogen is the active ingredient in most birth-control pills. Norplant consists of six progestin-filled silicone tubes, each about the size of a matchstick. In a simple 15-minute procedure, a doctor inserts the tubes just beneath the skin in a woman's upper arm. Once in place, the tiny cylinders start releasing progestin into...
Propranolol, the first beta blocker introduced in the U.S., is also the nation's second most widely prescribed drug (after the antiulcer drug Tagamet). Ayerst Laboratories, which manufactures propranolol under the name Inderal, plans to ask the Food and Drug Administration to approve its use as a post-heart attack treatment. As it is, physicians are free to prescribe it since it is already approved for other uses. Many heart attack patients are taking Inderal for other heart-related conditions. The FDA is also expected to rule favorably soon on Merck Sharp & Dohme's application to introduce another...
Halothane (C2HBrCIF3) is chemically kin to chloroform, which has long been accused of causing occasional liver damage. First synthesized in England in 1951, halothane was cautiously tested and carefully evaluated. By the time it was released for U.S. distribution by Ayerst Laboratories under the trade name Fluothane, it had been adjudged harmless in 10,000 human cases...
...triple-threat leaves of poison ivy sprouted furiously over most of the U.S., Ayerst Laboratories began distributing a protective cream, Kerodex, which has saved gangs of railroad section workers from the itch. For both prevention and treatment of ivy poisoning, the National Lead Co. was boosting Zotox, in which an oxide of the wonder metal zirconium neutralizes the irritating factor urushiol...