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 maker of Norplant birth control implants is warning doctors not to use implants shipped since last October and is urging women using them to use backup contraception methods. Wyeth-Ayerst ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 13 -- The maker of Norplant said today itcannot guarantee certain batches of the birth-control implants areeffective, and announced it will reimburse women who ...

N E W   Y O R K, Aug. 17 -- The maker of Norplant birth control implants warned doctors last week to suspend insertion of products shipped since October 1999, and urged women implanted after ...

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 ...

When Norplant first became available in this country in early 1991, family planning professionals hailed the implant as an important new contraceptive choice for women. And that’s exactly the ...

I am one of the 500,000 American women who have opted for Norplant, a birth-control device implanted in the upper arm. Norplant is one more birth-control option for women, but before presuming it ...

As a drug, Norplant can be a useful addition to the family planning options available to American women. As a symbol, however, the three-year, time-release contraceptive has already proven dangerous.

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.

A drug company will pay for thousands of women with the birth control implant Norplant to buy backup contraception because it cannot guarantee the effectiveness of certain Norplant batches.

Dr. Sheldon Segal expected Norplant to generate a controversy sooner or later. It was the “sooner” that took him by surprise. On the very morning the FDA approved the long-lasting ...