A new male contraceptive is on the horizon! Finally women will no longer be the sole bearer of responsibility and could stop taking those depressant weight gaining pills to avoid unwanted children. A non hormonal male birth control is in the preliminary stages right now but it has been proven in studies to work and they’re looking at starting human trials after the promising results on mice.
While Doctor Abdullah al Noman at the University of Minnesota said they did not see any side effects isn’t he mice they studied, there is no guarantee it’ll be the same experience for humans.
“When we went to even 100 times higher dose than the effective dose, the compound didn’t show any toxicity,” adding, “Safety is very important for birth control pills because people are not taking it for a disease, so they are less tolerant of side effects,”
Your Choice Therapeutics has licensed the drug and plans to being human trials in the US later this year.
- Jasmin Laine
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