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...Gregory G. Pincus '21, of the Worcester Foundation and Dr. David D. Rutstein '30, head of the Medical School's Department of Preventive Medicine, will use Ford Foundation Grants totalling $367,000 to investigate the effects of oral contraceptives on liver and blood conditions and the menstrual cycle...
...Harvard-Worcester study will involve approximately 10,000 women in Haiti and Puerto Rico, half of whom have been using birth control pills and half vaginal contraceptives. Pincus has been working with the groups since 1956, looking for signs that birth control pills repress cervical cancer. For the last four years Dr. Rutstein has been responsible for organizing this experiment and analyzing data...
...HARRY PINCUS...
...Plank's remarks followed a presentation by Dr. Gregory Pincus, who is known as the "father" of the pill, on the advantages of physiological control of conception. Dr. Plank, however, urged "continued cautious assessment" of the safety of the progestin-estrogen pills...
...Pincus to overcome infertility caused by disturbed menstrual cycles. It was only after they found that the pills, taken on a regular schedule for three months and then stopped, seemed to stimulate fertility, that the medical researchers began to try them solely for contraception...