Word: pill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Super Bowl and Kansas City's powerful defensive front four reminded National Press Club Speaker Robert Finch of what he termed his own "Frantic Four: pollution, the population explosion, the Pill and pesticides." The Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare continued: "The best thing we've found so far for the population explosion is a 24-hour schedule for athletic events on TV-all year round...
...your "Top of the Decade" section in MEDICINE, you note that the Pill was approved for U.S. prescription use as an oral contraceptive in 1960. You fail to mention that in the closing weeks of the decade the British government's committee on safety of drugs urged pillmakers and doctors to stop dispensing 21 of 30 available brands (the British equivalent...
Despite these allegations, the University Health Services (UHS) will continue to give the pill to married women (Massachusetts law prohibits unmarried women from obtaining them) until either the American Cancer Society or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decides that it is harmful, a UHS spokesman said today...
...pill is safe," he testified. "Taking the pill is a great deal safer than having a normal pregnancy, but of course not as safe as continence," he added...
Kistner said that in the ten years since the pill appeared on the market, the FDA had reported only one case of cervix cancer and one case of breast cancer in the millions of women using the pill...