Word: orf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read with interest "The Morning-After Pill" [May 6], about the new drug ORF-3858. The similar drug diethylstilbestrol, which Yale researchers are finding equally effective, has been used by veterinarians for years to treat mismating in animals. One of the most noted side effects is the increase in libido. This sounds like the beginning of quite a vicious cycle. Anyone for tennis...
Gynecologist John McLean Morris and Endocrinologist Gertrude van Wagenen told the American Fertility Society that one compound has been effective in rabbits and monkeys. It causes no harmful side effects and no malformations in the newborn even when taken during pregnancy. This compound, ORF-3858 of New Jersey's Ortho Research Foundation, has not yet been approved for human trials...