Article: BIRTH-CONTROL PILL FOR ACNE SOARS IN POPULARITY.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: JULIE SEVRENS Knight Ridder

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Every day, the young women file into the student health center at Stanford University and ask for prescriptions for a medication they've never tried -- and can't quite remember the name of.

``They call it the Pill for acne,'' explains Robyn Tepper, chief of medical services at the health center. ``And we know what they're talking about.''

Just about every physician in the country does.

Since being marketed on television and in fashion magazines as the only birth-control pill ``that helps your skin look better, too,'' Ortho Tri-Cyclen has become a must-have for many ...

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