John Rock


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Noun1.John Rock - United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)
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Season ticket holders voted for Richard Cantwell as president and will take over from outgoing John Rock at the club's AGM on Wednesday.
have announced SVP John Rock's appointment to manage the Government Lending Division of First Bank & Trust Company, specializing in USDA Business & Industry and SBA loans, the company said.
"By establishing its College of Medicine and Health Sciences -- the first medical college based in Abu Dhabi -- Khalifa University is responding to the challenge of developing world-class health care in Abu Dhabi, the UAE and the region," said Dr John Rock, the newly appointed dean for the college, who brings with him 35 years worth of experience in the field of academic medicine.
He was popularly known as John Rock, because of the part of Llangefni where he lived, Pencraig.
But Sheriff, who had a John Rock goal disallowed on 31 minutes, stunned Town with a sublime equaliser in first half stoppage time.
John Rock, who specialized in treating infertility and was part of the early effort to use hormones to regulate women's cycles to promote fertility.
Birth-control crusader Margaret Sanger and philanthropist Katherine McCormick provided the passion and the purse strings, turning to scientist Gregory Pincus and obstetrician-gynecologist John Rock to conjure up the first hormonal contraceptive.
Pincus of the Worcester Foundation of Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, John Rock and others, was developed and marketed by drug companies.
What drove Sanger, Pincus and their colleagues, John Rock and Katherine McCormick?
Lead officer in the case, John Rock, of Natural Resources Wales said: "In this case, the actions of the offenders have undermined the recycling markets and industry which are vital to make sure the waste we all produce is not sent to landfill.
John Rock Roda pleaded guilty to a long list of charges this week in Lane County Circuit Court.