Word: djerassi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be a geriatric world, at least in wealthy countries, with at least 20% of the people 60 years or older," says Stanford chemist Carl Djerassi, synthesizer of the birth-control pill. For that reason, he predicts, drug companies will turn from contraception to conception in an effort to help older women have babies. As for aging men, they'll have at their disposal libido and sex-performance boosters that will make Viagra seem like baby aspirin...
...Europe, which is years ahead of the U.S., pharmaceutical companies are aggressively pursuing male birth-control pills, reversible vasectomies and long-lasting vaccines. Even women in many Third World nations have more choices than their American counterparts. Observes Carl Djerassi, a Stanford chemist who helped develop the first Pill: "The U.S. is the only country other than Iran in which the birth-control clock has been set backward...