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 ...

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 ...