New Pharmacological Approaches to Reproductive Health and Healthy Ageing

Professor Egon Diczfalusy, a pioneer in gynaecological endocrinology and in particular female contraception, celebrated his 80th birthday with a scientific symposium. The participants were scientists from all over the world who had been scholars and close collaborators at different points in time. The interdisciplinary meeting consisted of lectures on the epidemiological impacts of ageing, its challenge for the pharmaceutical industry, philosophical aspects of the future of mankind, and the history and future of contraception. Three round table discussions addressed the hormonal control of reproduction and ageing, new approaches and future perspectives of contraception for women and men, and hormone replacement in the elderly. TOC:G. Beningiano: Laudatio: Presenting Prof. E. Diczfalusy on his 80th Birthday; A. Kalache/I. Keller: Ageing in the 21th Century; G. Stock: The Challenge for the Pharmaceutical Industry; J. Mittelstrass: The Antropocentric Revolution and Our Common Future; M.F. Fathalla: The Contraceptive Technology Revolution; Round Table Discussions: R. Ivell et al.: Novel Insight into Hormonal Control of Reproduction and Ageing; D.T. Baird et al.: Contraception: New Approaches and Future Perspectives; F. Naftolin et al.: The Elderly and Hormone Replacement.