‘Pill’s Link With Illness Unfounded’
(.Veto Zealand Press Association)
WELLINGTON, Nov. 23.
With more than 120,000 women estimated to be taking oral contraceptives in New Zealand there were bound to be reports linking their use with illnesses of all kinds, Dr. T. L. Hayes, assistant director of health department clinical services said in Wellington tonight.
Dr. Hayes said that it was likely such reports would continue, even years ahead, both in New Zealand and overseas. “All sorts of illnesses will turn up and be attributed to oral contraceptives,” he said. Some of the illnesses named in recent reports were baldness among women, blindness and blood clots. Dr. Hayes said a certain
percentage of women went bald and others suffered blood clots without using oral contraceptives. No link existed between any of these things. Few reports of side effects had been received from using oral contraceptives, he said. The people concerned would most likely have got these conditions whether or not they had taken oral contraceptives.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30916, 24 November 1965, Page 3
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