Gregory Pincus and John Rock, with help from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, developed the first birth control pills in the 1950s, which became publicly available in the 1960s. [66]

2024年6月21日 · In 1960, the first birth control pill, called Enovid, which was manufactured by Searle, was FDA-approved for sale as an oral contraceptive. By 1965, approximately one in every four American women under age 45 had used the pill. That number rose to 13 million women worldwide by 1967.

2009年1月20日 · Enovid was the first hormonal birth control pill. G.D. Searle and Company began marketing Enovid as a contraceptive in 1960. The technology was created by the joint efforts of many individuals and organizations, including Margaret Sanger, Katharine McCormick, Gregory Pincus, John Rock, Syntex, S.A. Laboratories, and G.D. Searle and Company ...

After comparing the data from studies using both Syntex's and Searle's drugs, Rock picks Searle's formulation, called Enviod, to be the first birth control submitted for FDA approval in America.

2010年2月9日 · On May 9, 1960, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world’s first commercially produced birth-control pill—Enovid-10, made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago,...

The Food and Drug Administration approved the first oral contraceptive in 1960. Within 2 years of its initial distribution, 1.2 million American women were using the birth control pill, or the "pill," as it is popularly known.

2021年6月28日 · Margaret Sanger, who founded the first American birth control clinic in 1916, propelled the research that led to the creation of the pill, one of the most popular modern contraceptives.

In the middle of the 20th century, an age-old quest for safe and effective oral contraception was realized. The woman who made that happen was Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), the founder of the American Birth Control League, the fore-runner of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Chesler, 1992).

On October 29, 1959, the pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle filed an application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to license their drug Enovid for use as an oral contraceptive.

The pill was the first effective birth control method that women could use alone. Why is that significant? How might that have changed relationships between men and women?