Word: estrogenic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Kistner of Harvard Medical School, a pioneer in Clomid treatment, feels that multiple pregnancies can and should be prevented before they start. Kistner treats women who do not respond to Clomid alone by priming them first with small doses of Clomid and Pergonal, then checking their estrogen (female hormone) levels to estimate how many eggs they are about to release...
...profiling on all their hypertension patients. Most physicians already follow Laragh's lead in another area. In 1967 Laragh discovered and reported a link between oral contraceptives and high blood pressure. Other researchers confirmed the connection, but it remained for Laragh to explain it: the Pill's estrogen-like substances stimulate the renin system, which in turn causes increased aldosterone production. The result in about 25% of all women who use the Pill: high blood pressure. Laragh and his colleagues now routinely recommend that victims of Pill hypertension try another method of birth control...
...that Morris conveys about his family make clear what extraordinary pressure he must have felt to do what he finally did. For when the children were well along into their teens, so that Morris and Elizabeth felt that the change would not harm them, he began massive doses of estrogen and opened medical negotiations that led to surgery...
...Howard W. Ory, a student in the School of Public Health, last Thursday released a two-year study that shows some of the first evidence linking estrogen-progesterone birth control pills to the risk of pre-cancerous changes in the cervix...
...women do not have their regular period following their unprotected intercourse. Though more time-consuming for doctors and less lucrative for drug companies, this method of post-coital birth control does not endanger the women with cancerous complications. Dr. Roy Hertz of Rockefeller University states: "Addition of any artificial estrogen beyond the natural estrogen produced in the body disturbs a natural balance which even under ideal conditions is precarious...