Word: pill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...formulations were soon developed to minimize the danger of blood clots and other worrisome side effects. But some health risks could not be foreseen, and as the 1980s dawned, bringing with it AIDS and a sharp increase in other sexually transmitted diseases, the smart new sexual freedom that the Pill permitted started to seem not so smart. As a result, the humble condom made a comeback in the '90s. As did abstinence...
...Pill and such newer, longer-lasting variants as the Norplant implant and the Depo-Provera injection do endure, however, still-effective survivors of a revolution that seems to be winding down...
...endocrinologists Gregory Pincus, John Rock and C.R. Garcia develop the birth-control pill...
...sleeping pill, thalidomide, is prescribed in Britain and Germany. It is later found to cause severe birth defects and taken off the market...
...French government approves use of RU 486, the so-called abortion pill...