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Fletcher appeared on a panel with the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation and one of the inventors of Enovid (an oral contraceptive). The three debated possible changes in sex mores and discussed the social, legal, and moral problems that would result...
Fact is, each year one out of every thousand women under 45-regardless of whether she is taking Enovid, or aspirin, or no drugs at all-will have an attack of thrombophlebitis. In a few of these cases, a blood clot from an inflamed leg or pelvic vein will travel to the lungs and cause serious illness or death. The danger that this will happen is known to be markedly greater in pregnant women...
...least 50,000 U.S. women have been watched carefully by their doctors while taking Enovid, and no ill effects have been reported. Though the Food and Drug Administration is studying the cases of women who developed thrombophlebitis while taking Enovid, it sees no proof yet of cause and effect, and no cause for alarm-only the need for caution...
...Marketed in the U.S. by Chicago's G.D. Searle & Co. as Enovid; in Britain as Conovid, and in other countries as Enavid. A related British drug is Anovlar...
...When dollar-conscious Britain decided to try out oral contraceptives developed in the U.S., doctors in Birmingham thought they might cut the cost by cutting the dose. U.S. authorities had just approved a cut from 10 mg. per pill (taken 20 days a month) of norethynodrel (trade-named Enovid in the U.S., Conovid in Britain by G. D. Searle & Co.) to 5 mg. The British cut it to 2.5 mg. The policy proved to be penny-wise and pound-foolish: of the first 48 women who took the half-dose pills, 14 became pregnant. Later trials switched...