Dr. Marion Powell talks about her research studies

An interview with Dr. Marion Powell talking about her research studies.

Duration: 1:18 minutes.

[Title card reads: Dr. Marion Powell talks about her research studies] [An older woman wearing a pink blouse and a black blazer is seated in front of a gray curtain. She is speaking to an interviewer who is off camera.] And we began doing some research and some of these, some of the phase four studies which were the marketing that comes along. The Pills were changing very quickly. Something simple, when we realize it now that the Pill, when they first came out were in 20 pills to a month, or to a cycle, and then they began packaging them in 21-day so you took up to three weeks and then off for a week, and then we got into whether the 28-day with the 7 placebo pills, but they had to have somebody who could do the marketing studies. And we did a lot of that work in the 70s and on into the 80s. I think one of the big areas that we got into was we began looking at women who’ve been on the Pill for 20, 10 years, they were in their late 20s and said now I want an alternate method. We began looking at some of the old methods which we had really dropped for the 60s and 70s. And so, we began getting back to the diaphragms and back to cervical caps which had been introduced by Marie Stopes in England back about 1910 and we did a fairly major study so that it got to the point where if you wanted a cervical cap, you went to Bay Centre.