In 1959 the pharmaceutical company Searle applied to the FDA for approval of a pill that would be marketed as a contraceptive called Enovid – this pill also contained a tiny amount of oestrogen, to prevent bleeding – and on 9 May 1960 approval was finally granted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty years of the pill] Reference

May 9th is the 50th anniversary of the FDA's approval of Enovid, the first birth control pill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: FACE the Facts] Reference

In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration formally approved Enovid, the first birth control pill.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: She and He - January 3, 2000] Reference

By the late 1950s, Drs. Gregory Pincus and John Rock, working out of a clinic in Massachusetts, had come up with Enovid 10, a synthetic hormone that suppressed the release of eggs from a woman's ovaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 11, 2003] Reference

Enovid was the dream of Margaret Sanger, the frisky little planned-parenthood crusader, who told a hormone researcher named Gregory Pincus early in the 1950s that she'd been longing for a "magic pill" since 1912 and funneled grant money to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the World Tilted--Again] Reference

Enovid, the first oral contraceptive approved by the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian Online Health News] Reference

(The pill, Enovid, was made by G.D. Searle and Co. of Chicago.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Editor] Reference

Two days later, G.D. Searle, the pharmaceutical company, sought government approval for Enovid, the birth control pill.    From Wordnik.com.  [theadvertiser.com -] Reference

On June 23, 1960, the Food and Drug Administration formally approved Enovid as the first oral contraceptive for sale in the U.S. On this date.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports] Reference

Within just a few years of the approval of Enovid, the first pill, it became clear that women were experiencing serious adverse health effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

A third generation, which includes most of today's batch of oral contraceptives, have dramatically less estrogen than Enovid, says Barbara Mintzes, an epidemiologist at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian Online Health News] Reference

The subject of countless magazine and newspaper articles over the past few weeks, Enovid, the original oral contraceptive comprised of synthetic hormones that inhibit ovulation, was approved by the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dose.ca Music briefs] Reference

It explains the back story behind themes and products in the show, including Enovid, the contraceptive prescribed to Peggy in the pilot, an the Reader's Digest lung cancer story that got in the way of Don's Lucky Strike pitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference

Another early-1960s event changed the Carvers’ lives, too: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved an oral contraceptive, Enovid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raymond Carver] Reference

Within a decade Enovid was on the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the World Tilted--Again] Reference

Enovid birth control pill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheila Weller: Forty Years of Groovy Single Gals] Reference

Enovid.    From Wordnik.com. Reference