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CONTRACEPTIVE DRUGS THAT DON’T MESS WITH HORMONES

Polina Lishko

PROFESSOR OF CELL BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS

CONTRACEPTIVES HAVEN’T ADVANCED ALL THAT much since the 1950s, when women began taking “the pill”—usually a combination of estrogen

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