Birth
control pill for men may be reality within decade
Scientists have been predicting
the debut of a birth control pill for men
within 5 years for the last 30 years, but when it will actually come is big
question.
The factors accounting for that delay — and new optimism that a male pill will emerge within a decade — are the topic of a story in the current edition of Chemical and Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world''s largest scientific society.
In the story, Michael M. Torrice, C 'n' EN associate editor, describes the need for a male version of the oral contraceptive pill that revolutionized family planning 50 years ago.
For example, there are few choices of contraceptives for men, half of all U.S. pregnancies are unintended, and those pregnancies cost state and federal programs about 11 dollars billion annually.
Despite that need, the few pharmaceutical companies working to develop a male pill have discontinued research during the last five years.
The story explains the scientific and regulatory hurdles in developing new contraceptives and describes promising new research on so-called non-hormonal male contraceptives.
28.09.2012
Black market implants threatening lives in US
Many women in the US
seeking curves like Hollywood celebrities are increasingly turning to the black
market for plastic surgery, little realising its deadly consequences.
During a preliminary
hearing in a Mississippi court earlier this week, prosecutors said 37-year-old
Karima Gordon died in March after being injected in the buttocks with a
silicon-like substance.
Morris Garner, 52, a
transgender man, is facing murder charges in the case.Authorities say Gordon
wanted to be a model and found Garner through the Internet, reports said.
Attorney General’s
Office investigator Lee McDivitt testified Monday that the Georgia medical
examiner, who performed an autopsy on Gordon, said she died from an embolism as
the injected foreign substance blocked the flow of blood to her arteries.
“Brain surgery would
probably be a less invasive surgery than having to remove the buttocks of this
victim all the way down to the meat and bone to get all of this substance out
of her,” testified McDivitt.
Earlier this month,
Barbara Nieto (29), a New York spa owner, pled guilty to unauthorised practice
of profession.
Nieto was sentenced to
two years in prison and fined for illegally performing liposuction and
administering butt-lifting injections to a woman who nearly died of septic
poisoning.
Another black market
plastic surgery that made headlines in April was when the Miami police told
media about Oneal Ron Morris, 30, who performed buttocks injections on a number
of patients using a mixture of cement, mineral oil, and Fix-a-Flat tire
sealant. She then sealed the incisions with super glue.
After two women who had
the procedure ended up sick and deformed, Oneal was arrested. Since then,
several more alleged victims came forward to share their stories.
Some of the victims in
these black market plastic surgery cases didn’t live long enough to share their
stories.
In early 2011, a
20-year-old British woman traveled to a US hotel room for buttocks implants and
later died.
28.09.2012
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