"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Natural Family Planning on Trial: The makers of a device that measures urine hormone levels to tell a woman when it is safe and unsafe to have unprotected sex are being sued by fifty of their customers. The device, called Persona (not available in the US), has a 94% effectiveness rate. That means that if 100 women use it for one year, six of them will get pregnant, or as the British version of the FDA helpfully points out, one in seventeen users will get pregnant. Put that way, it's not surprising that these fifty women got pregnant. What is surprising is one woman's response to her unwanted pregnancy:
"The Kings were so concerned about the age gap between the daughter and her siblings that they decided to have a fifth child."
