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...field trials involving 1200 in Puerto Rico and Haiti. Other investigators were at first what less successful, but with improved techniques, achieved perfect reliability. At present, for optimal results, the must be taken once a day, starting on the day after the menstruation and continuing for 20 days. A menstrual-like gins a few days after the last pill is taken. Five days later the should be resumed. Ironically, when one stops taking the greater than normal fertility sometimes results. Thus, the may enable sub-fertile women to have children...
...Roman Catholic Church opposes both physical and the ovulation-inhibiting hormones. Its approved "rhythm" technique, is theoretically very effective. Since usually occurs midway between menstrual periods, since the has' a life of only 12 hours, and since sperm live only 60 should be possible to avoid pregnancy by refraining from course for 72 hours a month. Unfortunately, the cycle is regular: ovulation is possible on almost any day after But a variation of the anti-ovulant hormones may properties when given in small doses. Such a probably be morally acceptable to Catholics, for Pope Plus in 1951 that...
...directions to doctors say that the pills are offered to treat many menstrual disorders: "habitual or threatened abortion," and to "establish conditions conducive to pregnancy" in many cases of infertility. All this is true. But the pills do more: used on a precise schedule, they prevent conception, without intolerable side effects, and, beginning this week, at moderate cost. "Oral contraception," says a doctor in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "has become an accomplished fact." As an accomplished fact, its potentials are vast. In the U.S., oral contraception could, for many people, supplant more awkward, older methods...
...Parke, Davis & Co. for norethindrone (also called norethisterone).* These two chemicals, both extracted from the root of the barbasco (Mexican yam), are as alike as tweedledum and tweedledee. They are almost but not quite the same chemically as a natural female hormone that controls much of the menstrual cycle and helps to prevent ovulation-release of an egg from the ovary to the Fallopian tube, where a sperm can fertilize...
...competitors in certain sports-swimming, diving, skiing, ice skating-are more susceptible than other female athletes to gynecologic disorders such as dysmenorrhea (painful, difficult menstruation) and inflammation of the internal sex organs. Menstruation, he found, often impairs ability: "I found extremely poor performance in tennis and rowing during the menstrual period." Since female athletes exhibit top skill, strength and muscle tone just after menstruation, many deliberately provoke the onset of menstruation with hormone injections before sports contests...