The company that supplied the once-popular but perpetually troubled Norplant contraceptive device has quietly decided to withdraw the product from the U.S. market. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals had ...

The company that supplied the once-popular but perpetually troubled Norplant contraceptive device has quietly decided to withdraw the product from the U.S. market. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals had ...

The Paquin School is a simple brick box of a building in a working-class Baltimore neighborhood. It doesn't look like the setting for a social experiment, but it is. Paquin's 300 students are all ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories used to revel in stories like Stephen Heartwell's. When the company introduced the ...

A new contraceptive that is implanted in the upper arm and remains effective for three years will be made widely available in the United States early next year, filling a gap in birth control options ...

It took 20 minutes to insert six matchstick-size rods of %J Norplant into Mitzi Silber’s left arm. But it took a whole summer to get them out. The 34-year-old Westminster woman stopped using the ...

The maker of the contraceptive Norplant has agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed by women who complained of severe side effects.American Home Productsstill insists Norplant is safe. But at ...

Nearly a year after the Food and Drug Administration approved Norplant, the contraceptive that works for as long as five years after it is implanted in a woman’s upper arm, public health officials and ...

Norplant isn`t likely to unseat sterilization, the pill or condoms, in order, the three most popular forms of birth control in this country. Yet the new contraceptive implant`s recent approval by the ...

Baltimore’s proposal to attack teenage pregnancy by making the contraceptive Norplant available to students could help to alleviate a number of serious social problems. But the program must be ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new "set-it-and-forget-it" birth control method for women, and The Early Show medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay explained more about it on ...