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Sat 05 May 2010Fifty years of . . .The Pill
Which came first, the pill or social revolution? As the oral contraceptive reaches a certain age, KATHY SHERIDANassesses the impact of a ‘wonder drug’ now used by 100 million women worldwide
THE PILL is 50 years old. That’s if you date its birth from May 9th 1960, the day the US Food and Drug Administration stamped “approved” on GD Searle Co’s wonder drug, Enovid. It changed the world. Or did it? It was a panacea. Or was it a poison?
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