Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss a day with the conventional birth control pill and maternity may result. Researchers-not to mention users-have long hoped for something with a longer-lasting effect. Now the Upjohn Co. believes that its drug Depo-Provera may be the answer. It has been used for treatment of uterine disorders, but one of its side effects proved to be infertility lasting a year or more. This is understandable, since the drug's basic ingredient is a synthetic female hormone that is also the main component of Upjohn's birth control pills. Last week the company announced that...
...single dose of Depo-Provera, injected into a deep muscle, will render a woman infertile for as long as three months. In conventional pill form, the drug is effective for short terms (women take the pills for 20 days, then stop to permit menstruation). In its injection form, the drug's effect is greatly prolonged by the muscle's slow release of the chemical...
...Humphrey. "One afternoon in a jet over Nebraska, I suffered a strange chest seizure after eating a hamburger," he remembers. "I was in agony all through an interview with the Vice President." Ex-pharmacist Humphrey rushed to his medicine chest in the tail of the plane and produced a pill. "Take this," he said. "It will relax the spasm in your esophageal tract." It did. Later, Lamont's doctor confirmed the Humphrey diagnosis...
...during Derby week. But Dancer's Image is a grey, an unusual color among thoroughbreds. He also is 1,050 Ibs. of fighting muscle; anybody blind enough to invade his stall by mistake would be taking his life in his hands-especially if he tried to force a pill down the horse's throat...
...deputy chairmen. In recent weeks, its members have gone into hiding in the cities or quietly slipped away into the jungle to avoid arrest. The Alliance has proclaimed a platform that calls for the neutrality of North and South Viet Nam. Clearly, by sugar-coating the pill, the Communists hope to build the Alliance into a full-scale political entity that would be acceptable in a coalition government, as the Viet Cong and N.L.F. would...