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...perennially explosive American abortion debate appears to have penetrated even the relatively apolitical halls of the Food and Drug Administration. After years of political and medical debate, the FDA, according to a report in the Washington Post, looks ready to approve the controversial RU-486 abortion pill - a development that might have been welcomed by women's health advocates, if not for what they consider extreme limitations on the drug's availability and dissemination. The FDA, it seems, has given in to the allure of the status quo - granting approval without rocking the boat...
...resculpts the brain cells that release the chemical. The changes to these cells could be permanent. Johns Hopkins neurotoxicologist George Ricaurte has shown that serotonin levels are significantly lower in animals that have been given about the same amount of MDMA as you would find in just one ecstasy pill...
...ecstasy pill most probably won't kill you or cure you. It is also unlike pretty much every other illicit drug. Ecstasy pills are (or at least they are supposed to be) made of a compound called methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA. It's an old drug: Germany issued the patent for it in 1914 to the German company E. Merck. Contrary to ecstasy lore, and there's tons of it, Merck wasn't trying to develop a diet drug when it synthesized MDMA. Instead, its chemists simply thought it could be a promising intermediary substance that might be used to help...
...doesn't mean ecstasy is harmless. Broadly speaking, there are two dangers: first, a pill you assume to be MDMA could actually contain something else. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most serious short-term medical problems that arise from "ecstasy" are actually caused by pills adulterated with other, more harmful substances (more on this later). Second, and more controversially, MDMA itself might do harm...
LIBIDO LETDOWN So much for equality. The first major clinical trial of Viagra in women shows that the popular male potency pill is--sorry, folks--no better than a placebo in improving female sexual response. While the pill seems to have some effect in women--as in men, it increases blood flow to the genitals--it's not enough to overcome low sexual desire, pain during intercourse or difficulty reaching orgasm. Now that's enough to give anyone a headache...