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Apr 22, 2010 · One of the world’s largest studies of the Pill — 46,000 women followed for nearly 40 years — was released this March. It found that women who take the Pill are less likely to die prematurely ...
- Nancy Gibbs
May 21, 2017 · The pill was first approved in the United States in 1960. In just five years, almost half of married women on birth control were using it. But the real revolution would come when unmarried...
Just five years after the Pill's FDA approval, more than 6.5 million American woman are taking oral contraceptives, making the Pill the most popular form of birth control in the U.S. Searle...
May 3, 2010 · Of the momentous inventions of the 20th century — television, the microchip, the Internet, to name a few — none affects us so intimately as the birth control pill, which was approved by the FDA 50...
May 10, 2010 · In June 1960 the Food and Drug Administration approved a pill that some people say caused a veritable women's revolution.
May 5, 2010 · On Sunday, men and women around the world will mark an event 50 years ago that revolutionized their lives -- the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the birth control pill.
Nov 11, 2014 · The pill was the first form of birth control that was simultaneously effective (it works to prevent pregnancy roughly ninety per cent of the time, compared to eighty per cent for condoms), easy...
