A male birth control pill has just passed human safety tests

Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2019-06-29 16:22

Article here. Excerpt:

'A new male birth control pill passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month, and it produced hormone responses consistent with effective contraception, according to researchers at two institutions testing the drug.

The Phase 1 study results were presented on March 24 at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Stephanie Page, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, jointly led the study with Christina Wang, a professor of medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles.

Study results indicate that the experimental male oral contraceptive decreased sperm production while preserving libido. The pill is called 11-beta-methyl-19-nortestosterone dodecylcarbonate, or 11-beta-MNTDC. It is a modified testosterone that has the combined actions of a male hormone (androgen) and a progesterone.'

Like0 Dislike0

Comments

This was published on 26 March 2019. We've been this close before but without a commercial product coming of it. Let's hope this one gets to the street, if larger trials show it really is safe.

Like0 Dislike0
Submitted by Douglas on Sat, 2019-06-29 16:59