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...PILL THAT THE GUYS TAKE...
Your compilation of ads from agencies "If Men Took the Pill," about how to promote an oral contraceptive for men, was amusing [NOTEBOOK, May 10]. But what a waste of scientific research! Will the woman who wants to trust a male with the sole responsibility for contraception please step forward? What? No one will? What a surprise. KIMBERLY J. BAKIC Anchorage, Alaska...
...each other. More and more of us go online and, perhaps partly as a result, more and more of us meet the clinical definition of obesity (about 66 million Americans today weigh 30% more than they should). So it was no surprise that sales of Xenical, the diet pill that just won FDA approval, exploded across the Net last week. There is, it seems, no shortage of Doritos-gobbling geeks who would prefer to fight flab without doing anything more strenuous than clicking a mouse...
...this makes even Hoffman-La Roche, Xenical's manufacturer, nervous. "We're trying to encourage patients to seek proper medical supervision," says president Patrick Zenner. Still, there's nothing they--or the FDA--can do about offshore pill pushers. (Besides, the feds have other online woes; last week they warned users against relatives of the so-called date-rape drug GHB, which are available online under names like Serenity, Enliven and SomatoPro...
...PULLED PILL It's going to get harder to find the morning-after pill Preven at your local pharmacy now that Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, has decided to stop selling it. Not to be confused with RU-486, which is not yet approved in the U.S., Preven is taken up to 72 hours after unprotected sex to prevent ovulation or implantation of a fertilized...