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...commend you on your article about oral contraceptives [July 20]. We are all anxious to solve the population problem, and most of us believe it can best be done with reliable contraceptives. There seems to be no doubt but that these pills, taken by mouth, will suspend ovulation in the female, but it is inconceivable to me, an embryologist, that any chemical of sufficient specific potency as to suspend the normal maturation of eggs in the ovary can be free from adverse side effects. The absence of side effects for the short period of five years is an insufficient trial...
After more than five years of use, oral contraceptives have proved to be "virtually 100% effective,' reported the authoritative Medical Letter. But the report hastened to add a warning: birth-control pills still have not been used "over a sufficient part of the human life span to rule out the possibility of important injurious effects...
...Medical Letter maintains, can attribute their condition to "misunderstanding or negligence" (the pills must be taken 20 days a month, at a monthly cost of about $3.50). But despite such assurance, the Letter suggests that until information about possible long-term side effects is far more complete, an oral contraceptive be used only when other methods "do not serve...
...goal was to give every Clevelander three doses of Sabin oral polio vaccine at monthly intervals between May and August. And Cleveland was reaching that goal with more dispatch than the city's sponsoring Academy of Medicine had considered possible...
...Step Further. Even before Cleveland began to gulp down the live-virus oral Sabin vaccine, killed-virus Salk vaccine had compiled an enviable record in suppressing polio. In the last seven years, Salk vaccine has cut Cleveland's polio to a total of 417 cases, compared with 3,338 in the previous seven years. But, says Dr. Howard H. Hopwood of the Academy of Medicine, the Sabin method has important advantages over Salk in mass vaccination campaigns. The live virus can be given by mouth, rather than by needle. It not only builds up polio-fighting antibodies...