One group took Polycap. The other groups took either a single drug or different combinations of the medicines in the Polycap pill.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Doctor Yusuf said the single pill, taken once a day, could reduce the average person's risk of heart disease and stroke by about half.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Doctor Yusuf said the single pill treatment could revolutionize heart disease prevention.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

And one pill would cost less than several pills.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Emergency contraceptives, like the so-called morning-after pill, can prevent pregnancy if they are taken within 120 hours of unprotected intercourse.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

"The pill 50 years ago was a very high dose pill, "It is a fraction of that now.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Instead,as May writes in her new book, "America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Yes. Bleeding or lost you American mouth Big pill Is it not enoughjust to have a long and happy life with me?

VOA: standard.other

(OMITTED) May adds that today's Pill has little in common with the one on the market in 1960.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

The most idealistic hopes attached to the Pill were that it would solve the problem of overpopulation,and poverty;

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

It gradually became clear that the Pill was not a panacea for all those societal ills.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

"They didn't want a message that says 'it's time to take your antiretroviral pill.' And instead,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Today,12 million American women take the Pill, making it the leading contraceptive in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

In May 1960,the U.S.Food and Drug Administration approved the world's first birth control pill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

They used the Pill as an important tool to gain control over their lives.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

If those compounds can be isolated, maybe someday you'll be able to take an anti-cancer pill, but for us coffee lovers, the answer may just be another refill.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

Nor did the Pill spark the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

It's a much safer pill and a lot of the difficulties have been worked out in terms of safety and side effects, not all of them, but there are still problems with the Pill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

"they would like to receive a message that uses some kind of code, and instead of sending a message that reminds them of their pill, they would like a motivational message, like for example, 'it's time for your life.'" Services like that have been shown to work in low-income countries, and now they're starting to appear in richer countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24