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...Pincus Pills." Probably no single name will be forever linked with the pills, as is Jenner's with vaccination. The search for medically useful knowledge nowadays goes along parallel lines at many places, often with a team working at each center. But Physiologist Gregory Pincus of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology and Gynecologist John Rock of Harvard University rate high among the pioneers of oral contraception. It was at Harvard, too, that Dr. Fuller Albright noted in the mid-1940s that an excess of estrogen* in the bloodstream soon after the end of menstruation somehow prevented ovulation...
...film, "Black Natchez," records the personal observations of Davied Neuman '62, research assistant in Social Psychology, and Edward Pincus, doctorial candidate in Philosophy. They spent four months in the summer of 1965 filming candid scenes of Negro emotional reaction to white threats and racial violence in the Mississippi town...
Neuman and Pincus have spent the past year editing 40 hours of film clips. Recently they returned to Natchez to film reactions to the murder of civil rights leader Wharlest Jackson, February...
...with the Ford Foundation grants, Rutstein and Pincus will be able to broaden their investigation. Interest will center on whether or not there is a higher thrombophlebitis (inflammation of a vein associated with clotting) among women using oral contraceptives, than among those using other forms...
...Pincus and Rutstein also plan to keep records of women who have stopped taking the pills in order to analyze any possible after-effects. An increase in fertility seems to be one, Pincus said...