No previous medical phenomenon has ever quite matched the headlong U.S. rush to use the oral contraceptives now universally known as "the pills." An estimated 5,000,000 American women now take them; and, as a special advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said: "Never have so many people taken such potent drugs voluntarily over such a protracted period for an objective other than the control of disease."
The committee was appointed almost a year ago to study the efficacy and safety of the pills. Its report, published this week, makes...
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