New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research - A Blueprint for Action

More than a quarter of pregnancies worldwide are unintended. Between 1995 and 2000, nearly 700,000 women died and many more experienced illness, injury, and disability as a result of unintended pregnancy. Children born from unplanned conception are at greater risk of low birth weight, of being abused, and of not receiving sufficient resources for healthy development. A wider range of contraceptive options is needed to address the changing needs of the populations of the world across the reproductive life cycle, but this unmet need has not been a major priority of the research community and pharmaceutical industry. New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research: A Blueprint for Action, a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, identifies priority areas for research to develop new contraceptives. The report highlights new technologies and approaches to biomedical research, including genomics and proteomics, which hold particular promise for developing new products. It also identifies impediments to drug development that must be addressed. Research sponsors, both public and private, will find topics of interest among the recommendations, which are diverse but interconnected and important for improving the range of contraceptive products, their efficacy, and their acceptability.

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A report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, it identifies priority areas for research to develop contraceptives. It highlights technologies and approaches to biomedical research, including genomics and proteomics. It also identifies impediments to drug development that need to be addressed.

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• Authors: Board On Health Sciences Policy, Committee on New Frontiers in Contracept, Committee on New Frontiers in Contraceptive Research, Institute Of Medicine, Sharyl J. Nass, National Academy Of Sciences, Jerome F. Strauss
• Assisted by: Sharyl J Nass (Editor), Sharyl J. Nass (Editor), Jerome F Strauss (Editor), Jerome F. Strauss III (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2004
• EAN: 9780309091077
• ISBN: 978-0-309-09107-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General