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Thus many American health experts were delighted last week when the Food and Drug Administration finally approved Norplant, a long-lasting contraceptive that is implanted under the skin. Already available in 16 other countries, the method not only is highly effective but also provides five years of protection against pregnancy with a single implant. How American women will respond to this new alternative, though, is not clear, since Norplant's long-term safety has yet to be fully studied, and it does have a few side effects. Some critics fear that the five-year implant will be used by policymakers...
...flow continues until the hormone is depleted -- usually in about five years. If a woman wishes to become pregnant earlier, she can have the tubes removed, and fertility will be restored in less than 48 hours. In clinical trials Norplant was remarkably effective. During the first two years the implant had one-tenth to one-twentieth the failure rate of oral contraceptives, which fail 3% of the time. Surveys of women who have used Norplant -- a total of 350,000 worldwide -- show that 80% are willing to stick with the contraceptive for at least one year...
...normal 5 days. These effects diminish after the first two years, according to the manufacturers. In addition, the cost, although less than that of oral contraceptives, will be considerable. Wyeth- Ayerst officials will not reveal the price until marketing begins in February, but some experts have estimated that the implant and the medical procedure together will run to about $500, as opposed to an average of $900 for five years of the Pill...
Current experiments include tagging CPFmolecules with radioactive chemicals to betterunderstand how the drug interacts with the virus,Burakoff says. In addition, he says, theresearchers will try to implant both human immunecells and the AIDS virus into mice with no immunesystem, to see whether the CDF molecule reallyblocks the disease from spreading...
...chance to appoint a young conservative such as David H. Souter '61 grants Bush the opportunity to give the court a rightward jolt that could last for decades. And with two other liberal justices ripe for retirement, a Bush Court could firmly implant the conservative agenda in the American judicial system...