When male contraception arrives, it will most likely come in the form of a patch, topical gel or bi-monthly injection. Making a male birth control pill remains tricky because orally delivered testosterone can have serious side effects, such as liver damage....
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For one thing,the pillisn’t foolproof. Or your partner may not be able to take the pill because of side effects. Or they may not use any forms ofbirth control. Women also tend to bear most of the responsibility and cost ofbirth control, and female methods tend to be more expensive t...
Researchers hoped the gel would work about as well as the female birth control pill, but it's working even better than expected, said Creinin. Why has it taken so long? One of the reasons it's taken so long to develop a male hormonal contraceptive is that unlike females who produce an...
"Here, we provide proof-of-concept for an innovative strategy for on-demand contraception, where a man would take a birth control pill shortly before sex, only as needed." The team from Weill-Cornell, led by postdoctoral associate in pharmacology Melanie Balbach, found that injections of the ...
But don't ditch yourcondomsjust yet. Page added that "larger, longer-term studies are clearly needed to address potential side effects." Interest in amale birth controlpill is strong, she said. "Women have many options, but many women cannot use hormonal and other methods available to them...
Attention men: The day may be coming soon when you can take your own birth control pill with no side effects, according to a study done by a group of scientists that includes a Texas A&M University researcher. Qinglei Li, an assistant professor in Texas A&M's College of Veterinary Medi...
“We’d be asking young men to use these for a number of years, so side effects are clearly an important issue,” Page said. “In fact, like the female pill, the goal of the male contraceptive would be that it would have ...
While the male hormonal birth control pill optionis in clinical human trialsand likely closer to market, it hasseveral potential side effects: In addition to potentially causing weight gain and changes in libido, it has the ability to lower the levels of good cholesterol (HDL-C) in men, whic...
Male birth control gel trial starts in Kenya A SCOTS university have been given PS727,000 from Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to help research a male contraceptive drug. Uni joy as Gates pays PS700k male pill bill Among currently married women, the most popular modern family planning method ...