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Meds Go High Tech!

NoelSeven — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 18:53:53 GMT

Here's the starting point:

"Millennial women may soon have a new high-tech birth control option that beats the daily pill: a small remote-operated implant that lasts up to 16 years and can be turned on and off over a wireless connection.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a project that aims to explore new forms of birth control, and the remote control implant would be the first hormone-based option that lasts more than five years."

Just think of the possibilities! It's common for older people with health issues to forget to take their pills... something like this could be the solution!

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/07/07/3456884/birth-control-remote-control/

Re: Meds Go High Tech!

DoneTryin — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:00:20 GMT

An implant in the men, controlled by their women?

Sorry, couldn't resist. But it all still goes back to being the woman's responsibility, doesn't it? A non-issue for me now, but I hope it works well, especially in some places in the world where birth control is either too expensive or unavailable.

Re: Meds Go High Tech!

NoelSeven — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:07:37 GMT

On 7/9/2014 VCamp2748 said:
An implant in the men, controlled by their women?

Sorry, couldn't resist. But it all still goes back to being the woman's responsibility, doesn't it? A non-issue for me now, but I hope it works well, especially in some places in the world where birth control is either too expensive or unavailable.

Not always, but certainly most of the time. Some men take responsibility and get a vasectomy.

But I think this mode of delivery has possibilities beyond BC only.

Re: Meds Go High Tech!

brii — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:08:09 GMT

It sounds like they are vulnerable to hacking, a very real concern.

Re: Meds Go High Tech!

NoelSeven — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:09:25 GMT

On 7/9/2014 brii said:
It sounds like they are vulnerable to hacking, a very real concern.

I think it's already being done in some instances, not BC.

Re: Meds Go High Tech!

straykatz — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 22:40:49 GMT

On 7/9/2014 VCamp2748 said:
An implant in the men, controlled by their women?

Sorry, couldn't resist. But it all still goes back to being the woman's responsibility, doesn't it? A non-issue for me now, but I hope it works well, especially in some places in the world where birth control is either too expensive or unavailable.

Since it is the woman who gets pregnant it makes much more sense for the woman to be in control of this....personally I would never leave it up to a man to take care of something like this....afterall he is not the one who has to walk around pregnant for 9 months and give birth....if that part of it was left to man then I think mankind would be extinct.

Re: Meds Go High Tech!

chessylady — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 23:04:13 GMT

We better get the men on the Supreme Court to outlaw this right away.