Enovid

In 1959 the pharmaceutical company Searle applied to the FDA for approval of a pill that would be marketed as a contraceptive called Enovid – this pill also contained a tiny amount of oestrogen, to prevent bleeding – and on 9 May 1960 approval was finally granted.

Fifty years of the pill 2010

May 9th is the 50th anniversary of the FDA's approval of Enovid, the first birth control pill.

The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: FACE the Facts 2010

Enovid was the dream of Margaret Sanger, the frisky little planned-parenthood crusader, who told a hormone researcher named Gregory Pincus early in the 1950s that she'd been longing for a "magic pill" since 1912 and funneled grant money to him.

When the World Tilted--Again 2009

By the late 1950s, Drs. Gregory Pincus and John Rock, working out of a clinic in Massachusetts, had come up with Enovid 10, a synthetic hormone that suppressed the release of eggs from a woman's ovaries.

CNN Transcript May 11, 2003 2003

In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration formally approved Enovid, the first birth control pill.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: She and He - January 3, 2000 2000

Within just a few years of the approval of Enovid, the first pill, it became clear that women were experiencing serious adverse health effects.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Laura Eldridge 2010

On June 23, 1960, the Food and Drug Administration formally approved Enovid as the first oral contraceptive for sale in the U.S. On this date:

CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports 2010

The subject of countless magazine and newspaper articles over the past few weeks, Enovid, the original oral contraceptive comprised of synthetic hormones that inhibit ovulation, was approved by the U.S.

Dose.ca Music briefs 2010

Within just a few years of the approval of Enovid, the first pill, it became clear that women were experiencing serious adverse health effects.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Laura Eldridge 2010

Within just a few years of the approval of Enovid, the first pill, it became clear that women were experiencing serious adverse health effects.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Laura Eldridge 2010