What kind of pill the number 570 on it?

Question

It's a small white round pill.

Answer 1

It's Apri birth control (Ethinyl Estradiol; Desogestrel tablets).

You can always call your local pharmacy too and have them identify it for you over the phone.

Check out the link below for a picture of it:
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Answer 2

Terminations of pregnancy, not unplanned deliveries, increased as result of pill scare
EDITOR,--In October 1995 the Committee on Safety of Medicines gave a warning about the risk of thromboembolism in women taking oral contraceptives containing gestodene or desogestrel.1 James Owen Drife questions whether there was an increase in the number of terminations of pregnancy resulting from women abandoning the pill as a result of this warning.2 He suggests, instead, that labour wards were stretched by an increased number of deliveries of subsequent unplanned pregnancies.
Last May we reported a 9.9% increase in terminations of pregnancy carried out in Oxford from November 1995 to March 1996, inclusive, compared with the same period in each of the previous two years. In response to direct questioning 8% of women requesting a termination of pregnancy reported that their failure of contraception was a consequence of their having stopped oral contraceptives containing gestodene and desogestrel.3

Analysis of the activity of our delivery unit indicates that there were 5.6% fewer deliveries in Oxford between April 1996 and August 1996, inclusive, than in the same period in the previous two years (table 1). Most women who became pregnant as a result of stopping oral contraception because of the pill scare would have delivered during this period.




Table 1--Number of deliveries at John Radcliffe
Hospital each month from April to August, 1994-6
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1994 1995 1996
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April 571 570 502
May 558 583 542
June 581 612 559
July 536 562 576
August 576 537 505
Total 2822 2864 2684



These figures do not support Drife's views or expectations; they suggest that the adverse effect of the pill scare was an increase in terminations of pregnancy but not in unplanned deliveries.

T J CHILD Clinical research fellow

I Z MACKENZIE Clinical reader

M REES Honorary senior clinical lecturer

Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Women's Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU

T J Child, I Z Mackenzie, M Rees

Answer 3

Go to www.rxlist.com They have a place to input imprint codes. Peace