Contraceptive trials in Puerto Rico
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Contraceptive trials in Puerto Rico
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The first large-scale human trial of the birth control pill was conducted by Gregory Pincus and John Rock in 1955 in Puerto Rico. Before the drug was approved as safe in the mainland U.S., many Puerto Rican women were used as test subjects. These trials are a major component in the history of the development of female oral contraceptives, occurring in between initial small trial testing on the east coast and the release of the drug for public consumption. As a result, women gained more independe
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Human trials of the birth control pill
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2024-02-27T05:06:11Z
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