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8 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1982 Lo3's go EIpogofiEig 2or New birth-control pill taken only on four days is devised DOoafloCa ffS Copyright 1892 Tho Krogor Co. Quantity rightt rttorvod. Nona told to dalrs. Ittmt and pricos good In loulsvillo, (except Indian Trail So Jatftreonvilla, Nw Albany, Clarfcavilla, Shalbyvltla, Padcllff, Bardatown and Ellzabathtown Krogor Store thru Sat. April 24, 1982.

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In an interview over the weekend at the Bicetre Hospital, a leading teaching Institution whose hormone laboratory he heads, Baulieu said he believed that his discovery "is a real breakthrough in the control of fertility." He said an animal toxicity testing program by Roussel-Uclaf, the leading French chemical company engaged in steroid research, had indicated that the pill was safe. He is not noticeably tentative about his conclusions or his hopes, but he acknowledges that a great deal more testing must be done. The primary research on humans thus far has involved 11 women who By RICHARD EDER PARIS A new birth-control pill which women could take for four days at the end of each monthly cycle. Instead of for three weeks as at present, has been devised by a leading French biochemist Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu announced his finding, and the results of preliminary tests, in his speech of induction this week to France's highest scientific body, the Academy of Sciences. Although Baulieu's work has been closely held, word of it has begun to arouse interest among several specialists in the United States.

Baulieu's invention is a steroid whose effect, he says. Is to jam the protein "receptor" through which the cells of the uterus are able to absorb progesterone. Progesterone prepares the uterine cells to accept, lodge and sustain the fertilized ovum. Taking the steroid in pill form for four days, beginning two days be RAZOR Trac II Blades 39 pkg. 300-ct.

bottle were known to be pregnant and thus the drug was being used to abort an established pregnancy rather than as a monthly treatment The volunteers, most of them nurses or medical students and ranging from 18 to 24, were six to eight weeks pregnant All had requested abortions. Baulieu, however, believes that the most promising aspect of RU-486 is not to induce abortion once pregnancy is recognized, but to be used regularly to terminate any pregnancy that may have occurred. In a second experiment undertaken at the Geneva hospital, three women not believed to be pregnant since they were using intrauterine devices, were given one quarter of the dosage for four days, beginning on the 22nd day of the menstrual cycle. "Bleeding occurred 48 hours after the beginning, continuing like a period of normal menses, but slightly more abundant than usual," Baulieu's paper said. "The following cycle pursued its normal course with ovulation, and no secondary effect was observed." The study showed that the pill could induce a normal menstrual period two days after treatment is begun.

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American contraceptive experts said that the new French birth-control compound is in a class of chemicals that represent one of the most promising approaches to contraception. A related compound is currently under study here by the Winthrop Laboratories, a division of Sterling Drug, Inc. Dr. Sheldon Segal, director of population sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, said, "There are two ways that a drug like this might be used. A woman might take it once a month whether she is pregnant or not or she could wait until she missed a period and then take it.

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However, this baby drinks only milk from a bottle. She needs it to go to sleep at night, and at 3 years old is too old to switch to a pacifier. Mrs. J. Z.

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