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Though the Pill and intrauterine device are among the most effective ways of preventing pregnancy, increased concern over their side effects has led many women and their partners to switch to the less hazardous "barrier" contraceptives, the condom and diaphragm. Now interest is reviving in yet another barrier device, the centuries-old cervical...
...course, we would prefer to have absolutely no unwanted pregnancies," Lewis said yesterday, maintaining that some contraceptive failure is inevitable, particularly because many women are switching from the pill to the less-effective diaphragm...
SERIES OF VERY BAD MOVES LINKED TO GREEN PILL, TEN DRAMBUIES...
...hope for limiting family size on further education in the rhythm method, especially in the Third World. It was heartened by a recent study by a U.S. Catholic professor of gynecology, who reported that the improved "ovulation method" for fixing the fertile days was as reliable as the Pill in actual use, without worrisome side effects...
This magic pill theory has long been popular in the running community, particularly among middle-aged males, a group that is at especially high coronary risk. The theory's most outspoken advocate is Dr. Thomas Bassler, an Inglewood, Calif., pathologist. Dr. William C. Roberts, chief of the pathology branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and Colleague Bruce Waller have provided clinical evidence that Bassler is wrong. They studied the cases of five middle-aged men, 40 to 53, who died while running, including Maryland Congressman Goodloe Byron, a six-time Boston Marathon finisher...