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Includes:
<ul><li>FPA memoranda</li>
<li>Extracts from journals/newspapers etc.</li>
<li>FPA/Ortho Pharmaceuticals Ltd press releases</li>
<li>"Oral Contraceptive Drug Products: Notice and Proposal of Revised Physician and Patient Labeling", "Oral Contraceptives: Requirements for Labeling Directed to the Patient", FDA booklets</li>
<li>Committee on the Safety of Drugs Report for 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969 and 1970</li>
<li>Schering patient instructions (for Microgynon, Eugynon 30 and Eugynon 50) and booklets ("30mg Oral Contraceptive Preparations", "The Clinical Use of the Oral Contraceptive Eugynon")</li>
<li>"Oral Conception Regulators: attitudes of UK Obstetricians & Gynaecologists", Syntex information booklet</li>
<li>"The Manufacture of Steroidal Contraceptives: Technical vs Political Aspects" by Carl Djerassi, Stanford University</li>
<li>IPPF Medical Bulletin, 1966</li></ul>

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