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Hitchings, George Herbert (sh) and morning-after pill (oh)


Hitchings, George Herbert (sh)




born April 18, 1905, Hoquiam, Wash., U.S.
died Feb. 27, 1998, Chapel Hill, N.C.

U.S. pharmacologist.

He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Over nearly 40 years, he and Gertrude Elion designed a variety of new drugs that work by interfering with replication or Other vital functions of specific disease-causing agents; these drugs include those to treat leukemia, severe rheumatoid arthritis and Other autoimmune diseases (also useful for suppressing rejection after organ transplants), gout, malaria, urinary and respiratory-tract infections, and herpes simplex. In 1988 he shared a Nobel Prize with Elion and James Black.


morning-after pill (oh)



n [C]
a drug that a woman can take a few hours after having sex to prevent her from becoming pregnant