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Some of the most hush-hush medical research has been pursued in dozens of laboratories in the effort to find a contraceptive pill. Last week, after months of rumors, President John Searle of Chicago drug manufacturers G. D. Searle & Co. guardedly told stockholders that the company "hopes to introduce ... an item this year for a variety of menstrual disorders . . . There has been speculation that the drug may have a use in the field of physiological birth control." But its safety and effectiveness in that field have not been fully tested, are far from certain...
Unnamed and not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the drug is a synthetic hormone related to those that cause both ovulation and menstruation. If a woman is not menstruating at all, she may take a pill a day for ten to 15 days; three days after she stops, she should begin a regular cycle (though repeat-courses may be needed in some cases). For irregular, excessive or painful menstruation or for between-periods bleeding, the drug is taken on different schedules which must be prescribed by a doctor...
...spot broadcasts of its progress. Last week Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research announced the development of a tiny capsule FM transmitter that can make just such broadcasts. It is small enough (|⅛in. long, 4/10 in. in diameter) to be swallowed like an oversized pill. Conceived by New York Physician John T. Farrar, the plastic-encased transmitter was designed by RCA's doughty old (67) Electronics Pioneer Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (who perfected the electron microscope) to record changes in activity in the digestive tract...
Weak signals (measured in microwatts) from the radio pill's transistor oscillator can be received a few feet away, vary in frequency with changes of pressure on a rubber membrane stretched across one end (e.g., frequency decreases when the pill reaches a churning stomach, rises when it enters a slowly pulsating small intestine). A fluoroscope can keep track of the pill's position in the body, while a receiver picks up the FM signals, presents them to the examiner on an oscilloscope as graph waves. Prospects are good that the transmitter will replace awkward, uncomfortable tubes now used...
...locked the cellar door, notified officials, and sent for the police. In a short time they were on their way out to Cambridge to arrest Webster. When he was told about the discovery, he gulped out, "Did they find the whole body?" and then swallowed a small strychnine pill, which had no ill effect because of his excited condition...