Word: steroids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rock, a Roman Catholic, said that the pill duplicates the actions of the steroid hormone progesterone and argued that since the rhythm method depends upon the secretion of progesterone to prevent ovulation, the pills are merely "adjuncts to nature...
Moderator Louis Jaffe then called on Dr. John Rock, clinical professor of Gynecology, Emeritus, to present the Catholic position and to reconcile it with his invention of Enovid. Enovid is a steroid compound, commonly known as "The Pill," which prevents ovulation...
...steroid compounds, Rock explained, are simply adjuncts to nature: the physiology of the safe period, marked by the production of progesterone, is identical with the effects of Enovid. Just as a woman's body has cycles to protect its offspring, a woman has an intellect to safeguard her marriage. "It may even be immoral," Rock said, "to refuse to use the intellect...
...Buyer. Early this year, Cyanamid finally brought suit against Fox and Sharff for $5,000,000 apiece, charging that the two chemists had delivered to at least six Italian companies formulas and cultures for three Cyanamid-developed antibiotics and one antiarthritic steroid. Cyanamid estimates that the Italian firms-all of which hotly echo Fox and Sharff in denying any formula pirating-last year sold $25 million worth of drugs based on Cyanamid processes. Ironically, two major customers for the controversial drugs were the bargain-minded U.S. Defense Department and Veterans Administration, which together during the past two years bought...
...Brand names boost the prices of drugs, so wherever possible we do our buying by generic name. A steroid of the cortisone group that costs us $11.50 a hundred tablets is list-priced by brand name at $170; a sedative is $3.50 by generic name, $16.20 list-priced by brand name; a sulfa derivative is $7, as against a list price of $53.32 by brand name. If we could do all our buying by getting bids from manufacturers on a generic-name basis, we could save 40% of our $315,000 annual drug bill...