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...especially true of thromboembolic (traveling bloodclot) disorders. According to the Government's admittedly incomplete data on annual death causes, roughly 17 out of every 1,000,000 women die of such disorders. The researchers had no better base to go on; they also could only assume that pill-taking women have at least the same thromboembolic disease incidence as the general population. As a result, they multiplied 17 by 5 and came to the conclusion that approximately 85 of the 5,000,000 pill-taking women should have died in 1965 from the effects of traveling clots, with...
Much more is known about the general incidence of breast cancer; and on statistical evidence, among the thousands of cases, there should have been hundreds among pill-taking women. Yet FDA files showed only one such case. Again, the experts concluded that doctors had simply failed to say whether their breast-cancer victims had been on the pills...
...theologians and even by the generally conservative Italian members of the Pope's blue ribbon panel of experts, represents a new direction in official Catholic thinking on marriage problems. For that reason, a dissenting minority has objected strongly and urged that the only concession be approval of the pill to help regularize the female menstrual cycle, thus making more reliable the rhythm method of birth control. The final word on the problem is up to Pope Paul, who has categorized the decision as "agonizing" and is unlikely to issue his decree before September...
...Cameron gave the pills, trade-named Cylert by North Chicago's Abbott Laboratories, as tough a test as he could devise. For subjects he chose men aged 49 to 85 whose memories had been impaired by severe hardening of the brain's arteries or by the deterioration of aging generally known as senile psychosis. He divided his 24 patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Albany into two equal groups and gave half of them Cylert for the first week while the other half got an identical-looking placebo (sugar pill). Neither doctors nor nurses knew which...
...responsible authority favors use of LSD without close scientific supervision. On the other hand, no responsible authority wants to stop research into the potentially vast possibilities of LSD and other "mind drugs." New substances are already forecast, notably a "smart pill," derived from RNA, to speed up the learning process; this has given rise to the slightly uneasy crack that in a few years "people won't ask you what books you're reading, but what drugs you're taking." Some of the drugs may be bubbling even now in the retorts of Dr. Hofmann...