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...good news. With final Food and Drug Administration approval at last in hand, American Home will soon be entering the burgeoning (now $100 million-a-year) birth-control market with an oral contraceptive called Ovral. Under development for nine years, Ovral, says the company, is the first completely synthetic steroid birth-control pill; American Home expects it to win sales from the 19 other versions of the pill now on the market, by helping to eliminate unwanted side-effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Millions from Small Packages | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...largest single Federal grant, of $682, 491, was awarded to support the Anesthesiology Center for Research and Training. The smallest grant, $417, went to Dr. David T. Armstrong, assistant professor of Anatomy in the School of Dentistry, to help support a study of ovarian metabolism and steroid biosynthesis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med. Grants Increasing at Slower Rate | 4/24/1968 | See Source »

Nembuol is really a moderate example of these price inequities. Medicate. a brand name adrenal steroid, sells for $170.00 per 1000, yet a generic equivalent can be bought from any of 12 reliable companies for less than $12.00. One of them sells it for $7.95. Peptids are potassium penicillin G tablets sold by Squibb for $6.72 per 100. but 17 firms sell pen G for $2.00 or less. And that is one generic equivalent that most druggists stock. Colace, an anti-constipation drug made by Mead Johnson, sells for $45.79 per 1000. But eight firms sell the generic, dioctyl sodium...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Harvard Doctor Exposes Drug Pricing Hoax | 5/10/1967 | See Source »

...traded issue on the American Stock Exchange, in 1965 rose in price more than any other stock on the exchange (from 64⅜ to 219⅝). Syntex is incorporated in Panama, operates largely in Mexico and sells mostly in the U.S. It is a leader in the field of steroid hormones, which includes the birth-control pills and is one of the fastest-growing segments of the drug industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: Master of the Pill | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Cholesterol is a steroid, one of a huge and diverse class of chemicals-including many fatty substances and most adrenal and sex hormones-having one thing in common: a four-ring cluster of carbon atoms, known as "the steroid nucleus." Other attached atoms give each steroid its distinctive character (see diagram). By growing rat-liver cells in the test tube, Dr. Bloch learned that they make cholesterol from the much simpler acetate ion (acetic acid minus a hydrogen ion). "My work since then," he says, "has been on the processes that the cell uses to manufacture the cholesterol molecule. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biochemistry: The Secrets of Cholesterol | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

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