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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...