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With the arrival of RU 486 in the U.S. -- especially in a form that requires the woman merely to take pills rather than also get a shot -- the vision of some pro-choice advocates, that the drug could abort the abortion debate, will be tested. Will antiabortion activists find ways to restrict the availability of the abortion pill? And if not, will RU 486 really obviate the clinics and confound the picketers...
...case, the political debate will certainly make it more difficult to find an American company willing to distribute the drug. After the pill appeared in France, opponents sent 1.5 million critical postcards to Hoechst's U.S. subsidiary, Hoechst Celanese, and they will inevitably call a boycott against all products of any company that gets into the RU 486 business. And that's just the first volley. "Do you think the pharmaceutical corporate executive wants someone picketing in his neighborhood?" asks the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, spokesman for Operation Rescue...
Aware of such potential problems, the pill's inventor, Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, is leading his own effort to establish a nonprofit foundation that would set up a new company both to manufacture and distribute RU 486 worldwide. Since the pill would be its only product, he says, the boycott threat would evaporate. The Population Council has expressed a willingness to discuss the plan with...
...best-selling -- of all dietary supplements. Truth is, E does little to lift the libido but it does appear to influence matters of the heart vitally. Two studies, reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, found that people who swallowed large doses of the vitamin in pill form -- at least 10 times the daily allotment recommended by the U.S. government -- had a nearly 40% lower risk of heart disease than those who consumed more modest doses. That two studies, involving a total of more than 120,000 people, came to the same conclusion was especially striking, says...
Under the agreement, the nonprofit family-planning group is charged with the daunting task of finding a company willing to make the pill, as well as with setting up clinical tests in 2,000 American women, though 120,000 women have already received RU 486 from clinics in France, Britain and Sweden. Approval for marketing is years away...