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Thus many American health experts were delighted last week when the Food and Drug Administration finally approved Norplant, a long-lasting contraceptive that is implanted under the skin. Already available in 16 other countries, the method not only is highly effective but also provides five years of protection against pregnancy...
Norplant is essentially an old contraceptive in a new package. Developed by the Population Council, an international nonprofit research group, and Wyeth- Ayerst Laboratories, a division of American Home Products Corp. of Philadelphia, the method prevents pregnancy by using the hormone progestin, which with estrogen is the active ingredient in...
The controversy over Norplant highlights a general dissatisfaction with the state of contraception research in the U.S. Numerous other methods are being studied around the world, including a hormone-releasing IUD, a hormonal badge that is taped to the arm and releases a contraceptive through the skin, a female condom...
The U.S. has never been eager to send its soldiers overseas. Wilson was reluctant to enter World War I. It took the sinking of the Lusitania, at the cost of 128 American lives, to draw him in. Had it not been for Pearl Harbor, America Firsters might have prevailed in...
In the case of Vietnam, it took more than a decade and the loss of 58,000 American lives before domestic support collapsed. The Iraq crisis is only 4 1/ 2 months old, and there has not been a single U.S. combat death. Yet some sectors of the home front...