New Pharmacological Approaches to Reproductive Health and Healthy Ageing: Symposium on the Occasion of the 80th Birthday of Professor Egon Diczfalusy

163 Pages·2001·2.982 MB·English

by  G. Benagiano (auth.), Werner-Karl Raff, Mahmoud F. Fathalla, Farid Saad (eds.)

Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop
Supplement 8
New Pharmacological Approaches to Reproductive
Health and Healthy Ageing
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop
Supplement 8
New Pharmacological
Approaches
to Reproductive Health
and Healthy Ageing
Symposium on the Occasion of the 80th
Birthday of Professor Egan Diczfalusy
Werner-Karl Raft, Mahmoud F. Fathalla,
Farid Saad
Editors
With 19 Figures and 9 Tables
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New pharmacological approaches to reproductive health and healthy ageing: with tables I Sympo
sium on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Professor Egon Diczfalusy. Ernst Schering Research
Foundation. Ed.: Werner-Karl Raff ... -Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; Barcelona; Hongkong ;
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Preface
In honour of the 80th birthday of Egon Diczfalusy, the Ernst Schering
Research Foundation organized a scientific workshop entitled "Fare
well to the 20th Century: New Pharmacological Approaches to Repro
ductive Health and Healthy Ageing" in Berlin on 1-2 October 2000.
Egon Diczfalusy was born in Miskolc, Hungary, on 19 September
1920. Eighty years later, it was Egon Diczfa1usy, MD, PhD,
DSc(hon.), Dr.h.c.(mult.), FRCOG, FACOG (hon.), Professor emeri
tus, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, who took active part in the work
shop. He was accompanied by his wife Ann, their daughter and four
sons. The workshop elicited a great interest worldwide; its programme
might be understood as a turn-of-the century reflection of the lifework
of Diczfalusy, the great communicator. Hence, the workshop covered a
very broad area of subjects from the current state of analytics via bio
chemistry and physiology, as well as clinical use of sex hormones via
family planning and hormone replacement therapy for the human male
and female, to a discussion of the new challenge of the new century: a
gradual increase in the proportion of elderly people combined with a
gradual decrease in the proportion of younger people both in devel
oped and developing countries.
The manifold scientific presentations and the sometimes (fortu
nately) controversial round table discussions were both informative
and stimulating. The overwhelming majority of the many outstanding
speakers were recruited from Egon's friends and former disciples from
all corners of the world. One of them, Prof. Benagiano outlining Egon
Diczfalusy's life, described him as one of the last exponents of the past
century's remarkable generalists and grand seigneurs. Egon was born
VI Preface
The participants of the workshop
Preface VII
with the - in him it is still prevailing - spirit of the old multicultural
and multiethnic Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Later, the generously
equipped and cosmopolitan Karolinska Institute in Stockholm became
the environment of his scientific maturation. Diczfalusy was one of the
principal initiators of the Human Reproduction Programme of the
World Health Organization some 30 years ago; he was always deeply
committed to progress in reproductive endocrinology and was (and still
is) profoundly convinced of the necessity of an active and long-lasting
scientific support of the Third World. Even today, he is very active as a
scientific mentor and reliable friend of a large number of reproductive
endocrinologists and clinicians all over the world. He has an unerring
eye for what is required in developing countries. He is politically alert
and has outstanding organizational skills.
It is a particular honour and privilege for us to publish the proceed
ings of the workshop in the prestigious series of publications of the
Ernst Schering Research Foundation.
Werner-Karl Raft, Mahmoud F. Fathalla, Farid Saad
Contents
Laudation
Presenting Professor Egon Diczfalusy on his 80th Birthday
G. Benagiano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 Ageing in the Twenty-first Century
A. Kalache, I. Keller ....... . 17
3 The Challenge for the Pharmaceutical Industry
G. Stock . ................... . 43
4 The Anthropocentric Revolution and Our Common Future
1. Mittelstrass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 57
5 The Contraceptive Technology Revolution
M.F. Fathalla ............... . 69
Round Table Discussions
6 Novel Insights into Hormonal Control
of Reproduction and Ageing
Chair: R. Ivell; Contributors: A.O. Brinkmann, A.C.E. Cato,
1. Herbert, H. Hoshiai, O.A. Jiinne, L. Martini, F. Naftolin,
C. Rivier, G. Telegdy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 85
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Contents
7 Contraception: New Approaches and Future Perspectives
Chair: D.T. Baird; Contributors: B. Affandi, D.F. Archer,
G. Bialy, W. Boonkasemsanti, P.G. Crosignani,
HB. Croxatto, HL. Gabelnick, L. Kowlcs, W. Oelkers 95
8 The Elderly and Honnone Replacement
Chair: F. Naftolin; Contributors: T. Aso, A. Balogh,
K.K. Limpaphayom, B.-M. Landgren, S. Mancuso,
HP.G. Schneider, 1.H Segars, R.S. Swerdloff . . .... 119
9 Concluding Remarks
E. Diczfalusy 147
Subject Index . . . 151
Previous Volumes Published in this Series 153