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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...
...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...
...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...
...grant will also enable Rutstein to give a series of lectures in Sweden in April...
...Rutstein is currently serving as medical member of Johnson's Peace Corps Advisory Council. He last year drafted a birth control bill that was defeated 119-97 in the state legislature. It would have permitted physicians to prescribe contraceptives...