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While most women in the U.S dis like the needle, some prefer it, and more do so in other countries. But for home use, Squibb hopes eventually to bring out a one-pill-a-month form...
...where they acquired congenital syphilis through blood transfusions administered to their mothers. The greatest body of litigation in this new field lies ahead. Key battleground: the hundreds of suits now being filed throughout Europe against the West German Grunenthal Chemical Co. and its licensees, makers of thalidomide, the sleeping pill-tranquilizer that caused thousands of children to be born with serious defects...
Behind this action lies a growing disillusionment with Miltown on the part of many doctors. Some doubt that it has any more tranquilizing effect than a dummy sugar pill; others think that it is really a mild sedative that works no better than older and cheaper drugs, such as the barbiturates. A few physicians have reported that in some patients Miltown may cause a true addiction, followed by withdrawal symptoms like those of narcotics users "kicking the habit...
Until now, U.S. pills have relied on a synthetic progestin, akin to but more powerful than natural progesterone, to prevent ovulation by spreading its abundance over 20 days in mid-cycle. Only a minute quantity of estrogen was put in the same pill to reduce side effects. But as long as 20 years ago, Boston's Dr. Fuller Albright pointed out that a high level of estrogens in the first two-thirds of the cycle would prevent ovulation. To him, this indicated a practicable method of contraception...
...pills now approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for marketing by Mead Johnson & Co. rely on the Albright proposal. Called "sequential therapy," the new system uses 21 pills neatly stacked in a tube-16 white on top and five pink at the bottom. Working down the tube, a woman takes the first white pill (an estrogen) five days after beginning menstruation, and carries on with the white pills on a one-a-day schedule until they are finished. Then she takes the pink pills (a progestin) daily for five days. By thus imitating nature, say Mead Johnson...