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✓ Published: 13-Oct-2017
✓ Published: 13-Oct-2017
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A housing project in Puerto Rico is where the most extensive human trials for the birth control pill were conducted. The women who participated in the trials––about 1,500 over several years––didn’t know about possible side effects. The doctors––John Rock and Gregory Pincus––didn’t either, since the pill had only briefly been tested on humans, in a failed trial in Boston.Doses of hormones in the pill were much higher than they are today, and though the usual side effects wer
A housing project in Puerto Rico is where the most extensive human trials for the birth control pill were conducted. The women who participated in the trials––about 1,500 over several years––didn’t know about possible side effects. The doctors––John Rock and Gregory Pincus––didn’t either, since the pill had only briefly been tested on humans, in a failed trial in Boston.Doses of hormones in the pill were much higher than they are today, and though the usual side effects wer
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