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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...
...least one hopes so. Teenage skepticism--Holden Caulfield's bitter gift for discerning inconsistencies in the solemn pronouncements of adults--may be one of the troubling traits on the medicators' target list. A pill that tones down youthful b.s. detectors would certainly be a boon to parents and teachers, but how would it enrich the lives of teenagers? Even if such a pill improved their moods--helping them stick to their studies, say, and compete in a world with close to zero tolerance for unproductive monkeying around--would it not rob them (and the rest of us) of a potent...
...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...