Word: pills
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Ultimately, of course, the issue may become academic. The rapid development of contraceptives suggests that women may some day become essentially infertile and thus free to decide precisely when they wish to become fertile. Such safe, do-it-yourself abortifacients as the morning-after and the once-a-month pill are also likely to make abortion entirely a private matter. Still, those pills are far from being perfected-and may well run afoul of anti-abortion laws. Meanwhile, even present contraceptives do not solve the abortion problem...
...Ladies' Man. The Tunisians need all the help they can get. Their economy has been temporarily crippled by drought and tough foreign competition in phosphates, their chief export. Ever pragmatic, Bourguiba is taking the bitter pill prescribed by the bankers and sharply limiting spending. Still, it may be a few years before Tunisia is able to resume growth of 6% a year...
...good, they usually do little harm because most reducers take only one kind. But from Oregon last week came a report that at least six and possibly eight women have died, apparently as the result of taking five potent drugs put up, along with a laxative, in a six-pill "rainbow package." Three physicians had dispensed the combination packages, said Dr. Russell Henry, Oregon state medical examiner...
...Henry listed the drugs: one of the amphetamines, or "bennies"; phenobarbital, to reduce the nervousness caused by bennies; thyroid hormone, to increase metabolism; digitalis, the heart stimulant, for no discernible medical reason; and a thiazide diuretic to promote loss of body water. Each pill contained a safe daily dose of that particular drug, said Dr. Henry. But some of the dead women had taken several a day, and four of the thyroid or digitalis doses would be dangerous...
Died. Gregory Goodwin Pincus, 64, research director of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology and a brain father of birth control pills; of myeloid metaplasia, a blood disease; in Boston. A brilliant biologist, Pincus first won national attention in 1939 by inducing a "fatherless" mammalian birth (a lab-fertilized rabbit egg); then in the 1950s, with Harvard Gynecologist John Rock, successfully tested an ovulation depressant called progestin, which came on the market in 1960 as Enovid. At his death, Pincus was testing yet another idea: a "morning after" pill, which keeps fertilized eggs from settling in the womb...