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Study Suggests Prospect of Male Contraceptive Pill

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A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science journal details a new means of contraception that may have been discovered. For the better part of the past millenium, scientists focused on contraception in women; however, this recent study shifts the focus onto men. 

Researchers experimented with mice by manipulating two proteins associated with sperm release and observing its effects on infertility. The changes in the mice resulted in successful contraception. In addition, unlike other experiments on male contraception, this method did not lead to any changes in sexual behavior among the mice. 
The scientists involved in this study hope that their findings will lead to a new contraceptive pill for men that could be available within the next ten years. Now they are focusing on developing a safe pill that accomplishes the goal of contraception without negatively affecting the general health on men that use the pill. 
According to the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, there are already at least four types of male contraception available. These include Androgen and GnRH, which both use hormonal changes to impede the production of sperm. 
Hopefully, this study will move forward and result in a safe means of male contraception. Adding an additional means of contraception to the available options would only make people more able to make smart decisions in their lives. 
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Are medicines causing more harm than help?

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Today we live in a world where there is medicine for every little thing, but what if all the medicine were taking are causing more harm than help. Scientists and doctors treat people depending on symptoms we have because that is the way the practice of medicine has always been. But those symptoms could be taking place because it is the body’s natural way of acting against sickness and by medicine getting rid of those symptoms it could be causing harm to our bodies in the long run without us even knowing it because it makes us feel better for the time being.

The business of medicine and the practice of medicine is extremely massive business in terms of dollars and cents and that might be a reason why people are hesitant to change the ways we are currently living. Many people debate the fact that doctors don’t exactly know what the medicine is doing to our bodies because they aren’t trained to know the science, they are taught to read the symptoms and prescribe a medicine based on how your body is acting based on past experiences of past doctors.
We as humans don’t like to suffer and we act on what our body wants at that minute and that is why doctors and medicine are so successful even though they may not be the best course of action for us. We tend to live in moment and that may be causing detrimental damage to our bodies.
Dr. Lorraine Day uses the example of cutting your finger to show how our body heals itself, unless we intervene and prevent our body from doing it. In this article Dr. Day explains her view on medicine and the body’s ability to heal itself. I agree with her that the body does heal itself, however, I believe that she takes this idea and goes to the extreme with this idea by saying that every drug is bad for us when there is scientific proof that some drugs extend our lives. For example, what if someone has diabetes? If it weren’t for modern drugs, their lifespan would be cut down for sure. 
So I’m not saying that we as humans should stop taking medicine in general, I’m saying that scientists should take a different approach to how to create drugs so that they help the body recover instead of covering up the symptoms.