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...oral contraceptive pill is under indictment once more. This time it is accused of increasing the risk of heart attacks among women over 30, and especially among those over 40. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just sent a warning bulletin to 600,000 medical professionals, suggesting that they advise Pill-taking patients over 40 to switch to some other contraceptive...
...been known since the late 1960s that for some women, the Pill enhances the dangers of blood clots forming in the legs (thrombophlebitis) and traveling to the lungs (pulmonary embolism), with possibly fatal results. The Pill may also cause strokes. That indictment originated with two teams of Britain's most eminent epidemiologists, now at the University of Oxford. The danger has since been widely confirmed, although the risk that any particular woman will suffer any of these severe effects is statistically small. The latest indictment is based on two later studies by essentially the same research teams...
...were published in a May issue of the British Medical Journal, the FDA's advisory committee on obstetrics and gynecology (ten M.D.s, one Ph.D.) met and concluded that a warning was justified. Among British-as well as American-women aged 30 to 39 who do not use the Pill, the incidence of nonfatal heart attacks is only 2.1 per 100,000. But for those on the Pill, the rate rises to 5.6 per 100,000. For women aged 40 to 44, the rates for the two groups are 9.9 and 56.9 respectively. Similar increases are found in the rate...
...reassurances: the currents in this work are complex, but Scott's style is lucid and well tethered to physical realities. The novels are serious, but they are also a weaving of well-told stories, and reading them gives no sense of swallowing a moral pill. For those who must have comparisons, the most apt one that comes to mind is Ford Madox Ford's four-volume meditation over the coming apart of the British Empire, Parade's End. Those few who have read Ford's magnificent work will know that the comparison is high praise indeed...
...groin of social criticism," says Norman Lear, who only 5½ years ago launched TV's new wave of frankness with All in the Family. Since then, sitcoms have laughed at almost everything: there was Maude's abortion, Archie's bigotry, and Rhoda and the Pill. The family laughed with them. Now it will find its chuckles curtailed. All in the Family, TV's No. 1 show last season in its 8 p.m. slot on Saturdays, has been moved to Monday at 9 p.m. Lear has been told that most of last year's episodes...