BOSTON — It seems that the 40 year-long love affair of doctors with the Pill is starting to sour. Doctors are starting to examine the long term effects of meddling with the delicate and complex biochemical systems that accompany the human reproductive system. The water systems around most urban centers are becoming polluted with artificial hormones from birth control pills and are being investigated as a cause of prostate cancer. Women are being warned that the use of the pill may lead to blood clots and other life-threatening side effects.
Now, a new medical study is showing that the hormonal birth control pill is likely to cause permanent decrease in sex-drive if used long enough.
A team of researchers at Boston University have found that the use of hormonal contraceptives increases the level of sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) — a protein produced in the liver that lowers testosterone levels, thereby reducing sexual drive, and that this increase was still found in women who had stopped taking the pill for a year.
The team's research leader, Dr Claudia Panzer, an endocrinologist at the Boston University Medical Center, said the study indicated that the loss of libido might not be reversible. “It is important that, when doctors advise women to take oral contraception, that potential side-effects, including loss of sexual appetite and arousal, are pointed out. If, as our study suggests, the Pill can cause a long-term or permanent loss of libido, that is something women need to be made aware of.”
The researchers studied the use of the pill on 124 women at a sexual dysfunction clinic. Those who continued taking the Pill had four times the normal SHBG levels of women who had never taken it. Those women in the study who stopped taking the pill at the beginning of the study still had twice the normal level of SHBG after a year.
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Taking the Pill May Lead to Permanent Loss of Sex Drive
Birth Control Pill May Cause Prostate Cancer and Bladder Disease in Mothers' Children
Viagra Causing Blindness
MINNEAPOLIS, MN — A scientist has revealed that Viagra may be responsible for causing blindness in some of its users.
University of Minnesota Medical School neuro-ophthalmologist Dr. Howard Pomeranz was the first to associate the use of the anti-impotence drug Viagra with blindness — his first published case report implicating the drug was in 1998. In March, Pomeranz published a report detailing another seven cases — six had lost vision within 24 hours of use of the agent, according to his findings, published in the Journal of Neuroopthalmology.
The US Food and Drug Administration told CBS News that it has 50 reports of possible association between use of the drug and loss of vision. A senior FDA medical official said, “We're very concerned. This issue is front and center, it's a priority. We know people need to know as promptly as possible.”
Viagra manufacturer Pfizer Inc. confirmed last Friday to MarketWatch news that the company is revising its label information to include the warning that blindness may occur in rare cases.
(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
