Searle
's birth-control pill, Enovid, received US FDA
approval for non-contraceptive, therapeutic purposes.
“The Pill: Timeline: 1951-1990”. PBS: The Pill: American Experience.
Later 1960: Oral contraceptives, popularly known as the...
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Later 1960
Oral contraceptives, popularly known as the Pill, marketed by Searle
under the name of Enovid, gained approval for use in Britain by the Family Planning Association
.
Asbell, Bernard. The Pill: A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World. Random House, 1995.
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Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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Susack, Cheryl. “Disciplining women: a short history of birth control and CRACK”. Folio, 30 Nov. 2001, p. 5.
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Bakalar, Nicholas. “First Mention: Birth Control Pills, 1957”. The New York Times, 25 Oct. 2010.
11 May 1960: The US FDA approved the first birth control...
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11 May 1960
The US FDA
approved the first birth control pill, Searle
's Enovid.
“The Pill: Timeline: 1951-1990”. PBS: The Pill: American Experience.