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...treating mild and temporary conditions like headaches and heartburn. But the FDA is weighing the possibility of letting stores sell medicines that treat symptomless lifetime conditions like high cholesterol and osteoporosis--as many other Western nations do. The agency could go so far as to make birth-control pills and antibiotics as accessible as aspirin. That's too far for some critics, who express concern about our nonchalant, pill-popping approach to medicines. Does anyone even read a label? they...
...PILL Don't base your decision about whether to take birth-control pills solely on this finding, but an analysis of 40 years of data shows that taking low-dose estrogen formulations nearly doubles the odds of suffering a stroke. Worse, women on high-dose estrogen face a nearly threefold increased risk. A worry to be sure, but not a big one: the odds of a stroke among women of reproduction age are tiny to begin with--about...
...interestingly, many pill opponents don't premise their concerns on women's health; rather, they take the view that any further infiltration could lead to increased teenage access to the pill, which, the argument goes, would lead to increased rates of sexual activity. The fact that teens are having sex already and that the pill would simply ensure they wouldn't get pregnant seems to be lost. But that's probably to be expected...
...sounds revolutionary, but maybe it shouldn't: After 40 years on the American market, the once infamous "pill" is part of mainstream culture. More than 16 million women take the pill, many of them for decades with very few or no side effects, and some doctors argue there is absolutely no good reason those women shouldn't be saved the inconvenience of filling a monthly prescription. There are financial benefits on the line as well: Women would pay less for off-the-shelf pills. Of course, pharmaceutical companies would lose out, as would gynecologists, whose patients' visits would be dramatically...
...course, no one in this debate is suggesting that there aren't risks to taking the pill; women who smoke or have high blood pressure are not good candidates, and unless you are particularly fastidious about taking your pill at the same time every day, you run the risk of pregnancy. But when one considers the fact that an adult could easily kill herself by downing a bottle of something as universally accessible and generally innocuous as aspirin, the argument to keep the pill out of widespread circulation on the basis of its potential health hazards loses most...