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...British government last week announced that it is making oral contraceptives available at trifling cost under the National Health Service to Britain's women, who number 12,250,000 in the child-bearing (15-49) age bracket. The measure, though duly limited by requiring doctors' prescriptions, seemed a significant step toward massive, government-paid support for curbing a nation's population. Yet much concern in the House of Commons was over the possible but unpredictable cost to the treasury...
...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...
...responding to the oral poll, 91, 20%, expressed violent hatred; and 117, or 26%, disliked the system enough to greatly prefer door-to-door delivery--even granting the alleged chance of stolen laundry...
...TIME correspondents around the U.S., were visiting laboratories and quizzing virologists to put together the cover story. Touring a virus and vaccine laboratory, Medicine Writer Cant donated five milliliters of blood for testing, later found that he was low on polio antibody, was persuaded to take a swig of oral polio vaccine. After Writer Cant and Senior Editor William Forbis had put the final touches on the cover story about Virologist John Enders* and medicine's battle against viruses, they reported feeling some new symptoms-probably attributable to their added knowledge, but nothing that could not be overcome...
...schools, like Peabody (near Radcliffe) and Morse (near Magazine Beach) have already been open for some time. The Committee has also launched several experimental programs, one, for example, an "in-service" training program for new and old teachers alike. Another major step has been the addition of aural-oral instruction in French...