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Potential Male Birth Control Pill Has Just Been Shown Safe in Humans for the First Time

posted by takyon on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the wang-prescribes-beta dept.

martyb writes:

This Male Birth Control Pill has Just Been Shown Safe in Humans for the First Time:

For years, scientists have been trying to develop a safe and effective version of the pill for men, and a new drug candidate could be the contraceptive we've been looking for.

This week, scientists in the US announced that an experimental oral drug called 11-beta-MNTDC looks to be safe and tolerable, based on results from a phase 1 clinical trial involving 40 men.

"Our results suggest that this pill, which combines two hormonal activities in one, will decrease sperm production while preserving libido," says male reproduction biologist Christina Wang from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed).

[...] 11-beta-MNTDC is a modified form of testosterone with both progestational (in effect, sperm-blocking) and androgenic (hormone-balancing) characteristics.

Before you get your hopes up too much, this was strictly a test for toleration; further studies are required to test efficacy.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @07:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @07:02AM (#820518)

    It's a bad time to be a guy (male suicide rates rising, male graduation rates, college acceptance rates falling, lots of programs and opportunities for girls and few for guys). That's why the MGTOW movement exists.

    Colleges are increasingly becoming degree mills anyway. There are plenty of jobs (software development) where degrees are not needed but are increasingly required by employers because they are too short-sighted to actually interview people. So, colleges increasingly become more about job training than actual education, in an effort to push out as many paper holders as possible and collect their money.

    The entire school system, from the K-12 system to the college system, is utterly abysmal and needs to be completely reformed.