Dr. Gregory Pincus: A Progestin A Day Keeps The Stork Away
June, 1961
After almost a decade of research and clinical. testing under the supervision of Dr. Gregory Pincus, the fifty-eight-year-old co-director of Massachusetts' Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, a synthetic hormone named progestin has given every evidence of being the most efficient contraceptive ever devised. Among the 838 women volunteers who took the drug faithfully – by tablet for twenty days of the monthly cycle – there was exactly one pregnancy, later believed to have occurred befo...
