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Mifepristone
a biologist working at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Massachusetts studied Djerassi’s new steroid together with its double bond isomer norethynodre
Gregory Pincus
a gynecologist, showed that progesterone, in combination with norethindrone, was an effective oral contraceptive.
John Rock
was the first on the market with Enovid
G.D. Searle
combination of mestranol and norethynodrel.
Enovid
the pill is one of the seven wonders of the modern world, bringing about major changes in the economic and social structure of women globally
G.D. Searle
The 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to (blank) …for their discovery relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects
Phillip S. Hench, Edward C. Kendall, and Tadeus Reichstein
An interesting development in the study of glucocorticoids led in 1980 to the synthesis of the “abortion pill,
Etienne-Emile Beaulieu
antiglucocorticoid activity as well as high affinity for progesterone receptors where it could be used for fertility control. abortion pill
Ru-486
In screening RU-486, researchers at Rousel-Uclaf found that it had both RU-486, also known as (blank), entered the French market in 1988, but sales were suspended by Rousel-Uclaf when antiabortion groups threatened to boycott the company.
mifepristone (Mifeprex)
In 1994, the company donated the United States rights to the (blank), a nonprofit reproductive and population control research institution.
New York City–based Population Council
is now administered in doctors’ offices as a tablet in combination with misoprostol, a prostaglandin that causes uterine contractions to help expel the embryo.
Mifepristone
The combination of mifepristone and (blank) is more than 90 % effective
misoprostol
Plan B, also known as the “morning-after pill,” has been referred to as an emergency contraceptive. It contains (blank) the same progestin that is in “the pill,” and should be taken within 3 days of unprotected sex and can reduce the risk of pregnancy by 89%.
levonorgestrel
The first use of synthetic organic chemicals for the modulation of life processes occurred when (blank) were introduced in anesthesia during the 1840s.
nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform
a dentist in Hartford, Connecticut administered nitrous oxide during a tooth extraction
Horace Wells
a Georgian physician used ether as an anesthetic for excising a tumor growth in a patient’s neck
Crawford long
A 27-year-old dentist who gave the first successful public demonstration of surgical anesthesia
William Morton
have been used as anesthetics in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London
Chloroform
was first tested on animals
chloroform and ethyl chloride
