Word: pill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pill," as oral contraceptives are now universally known, may well have as great an impact on the health of billions of people yet unborn as did the work of Pasteur in revealing the mechanism of infections, or of Lister in preventing them. For if the pill can defuse the population explosion, it will go far toward eliminating hunger, want and ignorance. So far, it has reached only a tiny fraction of the world's 700 million women of childbearing age, but its potential is clear from U.S. experience. Of the 39 million American women capable of motherhood...
...have women in fertile all their lives, except when they specifically wanted to conceive, and then switch on their fertility with a pill or a shot. If that sounds far out, so did the pills themselves, when such men as Dr. Rock began their research less than 20 years...
...would be more natural to do this by providing nothing but added estrogen until the 20th day, and then giving progestin only briefly. San Antonio Researcher Dr. Joseph W. Goldzieher worked with Syntex Laboratories to develop the resulting "sequentials." Beginning with Day 5, the woman takes a white estrogen pill for 15 days, then a distinctively colored
Skipped a Day. All the pills of both types now approved by the Food and Drug Administration for U.S. prescription (see box, page 80) are as close to 100% effective as any medication ever devised for any purpose. When a woman "on the pills" has become pregnant, it has been shown in virtually every case-and suspected in the others-that she has skipped a pill or two. The failure rate is slightly higher on the sequentials, apparently because the estrogen taken early in the cycle wears off rapidly, and a single day's missed pill may spell pregnancy...
Prescribed for Acne. Some women complain that the pills cause acne. This is physiologically impossible, because acne is associated with an excess of androgens (male hormone) over estrogen. Since the pills supply estrogen, they are often prescribed for treatment of acne. Other women complain that they don't menstruate while on the pills. This is seldom true, because of the pills' regularizing effect. A Los Angeles mother says that the pill was "magic-a godsend" for her 15-year-old daughter, whose menstruation was so irregular and heavy that she suffered serious blood loss and near-shock...