Word: pills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Pill is the most effective method of contraception yet devised, it has not proved an unmixed blessing to all of the 8,000,000 American women who use it. Many women on the Pill experience minor problems such as nausea, headaches and breast tenderness; others have menstrual irregularity and are temporarily infertile after they give...
...relatively small number of users, however, there are more serious side effects. Studies carried out in the U.S. and Great Britain have shown that women who use the Pill are more prone to circulatory problems like clotting than those who do not. Now it appears that these women are more susceptible to strokes as well. According to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, women who use the Pill are nine times as likely to suffer strokes as those who rely on other means of contraception...
Doctors have suspected for some time that the Pill might cause clotting in arteries feeding the brain, but have never found positive proof. The new study-carried out by neurologists from a dozen major university hospitals during a two-year period between 1969 and 1971-goes a long way toward providing it. After locating 598 nonpregnant women between the ages of 15 and 44 who had been hospitalized with strokes, the researchers matched them against two carefully chosen control groups. One consisted of women of the same ages and races hospitalized for other causes, the other of healthy women living...
...failed, and therefore negligible, members of the tree of life) to a book called Animals, Men and Morals. An ultra-worthy anthology, which goes way beyond anti-blood-sport rhetoric, Animals (Taplinger; $6.50) has been widely unread. Much of its message has been palatably repackaged as a sugar-coated pill in All Heaven in a Rage. Whether the public will lick off the sugar and leave the pill behind is a question. Timothy Foote
...MOTHER OF A friend of mine identifies each of her nine children by their "causes." "Well, the first three times I tried rhythm. My diaphragm slipped twice. For the next one, I think I missed a pill...