Word: organon
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Just a few years ago, the new male contraceptive seemed like an inevitable reality. Major pharmaceutical companies like Wyeth, Schering and Organon were pumping millions into hormonal birth-control development programs for men, and researchers were breathlessly promising imminent production...
...tomorrow on some of those discarded drugs, men would probably have their pick of contraceptive gels or implants - just like women - within five years. Yet, she says, drug companies still aren't interested. Though industry representatives refused to speak to the marketability question for this article, one spokeswoman for Organon, Monique Mols, told the industry journal Chemistry World in 2007, "Despite 20 years of research, the development of a [hormonal] method acceptable to a wide population of men is unlikely...
Your report on steroid use in professional sports, "Baseball Takes a Hit" [March 15], included a photograph of Organon USA Inc.'s product Durabolin. The drug, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the control of metastatic breast cancer in women, is no longer marketed in the U.S. and has not been for some time. We voluntarily discontinued marketing and selling it about three years ago. Organon never produced or promoted Durabolin for the purpose of athletic-performance enhancement. By including a photo of Durabolin, TIME erroneously and unfairly suggested that the company has contributed...
...their actions," opined London's Guardian in a story that took note of the Australian study. By that logic, though, men shouldn't be flying fighter planes either. In fact, recent surveys have shown that significant numbers of men are interested in a contraceptive drug. Two European firms, Organon and Schering AG, are backing trials around the world...
...think that we are a little unfair to men," says Mirjam Mol, vice president of Organon's reproductive-medicine program. "The men in our study are very motivated." Will women trust men to take their medicine? Says Dr. Regine Sitruk-Ware, an endocrinologist at the Population Council, an international reproductive-research organization: "Really, it's for reasonable people in a stable relationship...