In South Korea, the abduction and rape of a 7-year-old girl last week outraged the public and prompted President Lee Myung-Bak to consider various measures including chemical castration to combat ...

Baton Rouge, La. — Louisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved Monday, and if Republican Gov. Jeff Landry ...

Let’s take a closer look at how chemical castration works, what the long-term risks are, and if it can be reversed. Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) comes from your pituitary gland. This ...

March 2 -- Increasingly severe sex offender laws nationwide are convincing some criminals to take drastic measures in an effort to prove they are fit for society — even resorting to a treatment so ...

In addition to castration, Thomas McCartney's plea deal includes 40 years in state prison, according to a Louisiana district ...

May 4, 2005 — -- The release of a convicted child molester who claims to have undergone voluntary castration so he wouldn't molest again is causing alarm and sparking outrage in San Antonio. On ...

Convicted sex offenders in Thailand could soon be offered chemical castration in exchange for a shorter prison sentence, as lawmakers consider a bill aimed at tackling sex crimes, Reuters reports. The ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - As of Thursday, August 1, for the first time in the country’s history, child rapists can now be ordered by a judge to have their testicles removed if the victim is under the ...

Akeega combines niraparib, a PARP inhibitor, and abiraterone acetate, a CYP17 inhibitor, into a single tablet for BRCA2-mutated mCSPC.

Surgical castration is a procedure where both the testes are removed. It renders the male infertile and reduces sexual urges. Surgical castration results in a permanent loss of sexual function.

A 54-year-old Louisiana man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison and physical castration after being convicted of raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl. Glenn Sullivan, Sr., of Springfield, ...

An international research team, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, ...