“A female sex hormone involved in pregnancy has been found to be so successful in repairing brain damage in both men and women that a large-scale clinical trial is scheduled to begin next month on more than 1,000 victims of severe head injuries.
Progesterone, a “sex steroid” produced in women as part of the menstrual cycle, is to be injected into patients who suffer brain injuries within hours of their accident in an attempt to limit or even reverse the long-term damage that normally results from severe trauma.
Earlier tests on laboratory animals and a smaller clinical trial have shown that the hormone is safe to use and can help the brain recover to the extent that disability was reduced and deaths halved, scientists said yesterday.”
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No hormone is strong enough to cure MY brain damage!
Ah, onlhy in life threatening situations .. I already started to wonder whatever made them decide that they all of a sudden could use people for their experiments just like that. Still that is the case ofcourse. Maybe people could carry a yes/no codicil or such on them to solve that issue.
Doing things without consent is already the case more often than most people know of. Not in a legal way, but it happens in research via hospitals. Patients should not just give their blood and such to just anyone. They are at least entitled to know what it is being used for. Most wont have such a problem with it, but still.
Monitoring people without telling them and without telling them about the results (for obvious reasons)
Female hormone but found in male and female brain. Hm …
As long as you don’t also grow huge man boobs after, sounds good.
The closing paragraph tells it all in my opinion. I must say that I agree with it, and the most wonderful thing about it is that you left it open ended…this shows that you are ready to draw in new and different opinions and that you are ultimately very interested to see people getting involved in the subject. So, any alternative opinions?