For the first time in history, pills and injections (of two inexpensive drugs) are enabling psychiatrists to 1) nip in the bud some burgeoning outbreaks of emotional illness, 2) treat many current ...

We've all been there: reaching for the medicine cabinet with a splitting headache, opening the new pill bottle, and digging through a giant cotton ball to get to the capsules. Why are those cotton ...

Pincus and Rock teamed with Puerto Rico’s Dr. Edris Rice-Wray in a big-scale test of the drug as a contraceptive among San Juan slum dwellers. While “on the pills” only 16 out of 838 women ...