Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most minute quantity, prevented some side effects, including unwanted bleeding. So when Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co., which had worked closely with Pincus and Rock, began making "the Pincus pills" as Enovid in 1957, the formulation contained 66 parts progestin to one part estrogen. The progestin dose has been reduced by as much as 90% in Searle's newest pills, Ovulen, but the combination principle is the same...
...INJECTIONS. A progesterone derivative, the Upjohn Co.'s Depo-Provera, has had FDA approval for six years as a treatment for disorders of the lining of the uterus. Its use as a contraceptive is still limited in the U.S. to experimentation by researchers. The dose, injected into a muscle and slowly released into the system, can be adjusted so that women might need an injection only once a month, or every three or six months...
WASHINGTON, March 29--A University of California psychiatrist revealed today that at least two students who took a single dose of LSD with no immediately apparent aftereffects suddenly suffered severe hallucinations several months later...
Strollers wear jingle bells at their ankles, beads or flowers at their throats, and strum guitars or tootle flutes. It is not rare to see a Haight Street hippie put a dime in a parking meter, then flake out along the curb for a legal dose of sun tan. Wall posters, in the style of China's Red Guard movement, abound-most of them signed "Love" or "Peace" and bearing such timeless messages as "Gypsy come home-your mother is pushed out of shape...
Only six months ago, the U.S. economy was heating rapidly and Lyndon Johnson decided to cool it. His damper was a dose of New Economics: he asked Congress for a temporary suspension of the 7% investment-tax credit on plant and equipment spending. The move helped chill the economy so much that last week the President requested Congress to reinstate the credit nine months ahead of schedule...