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

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:39PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:39PM (#820662)

    With a 28 days trial they've not proved safe anything, not even was long enough to prove effectiveness. All the report is a pure bluff to get funds

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @09:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @09:57PM (#820981)

    It is a phase 1 trial. They are limited to something like 8 weeks and 80 participants by law. It is only meant to prove "safety" in that taking the medication won't cause death, disability, or physiological changes above a certain level at dosage greatly above the estimated therapeutic dose. Basically, short of someone dying, wishing they were dead, or having an otherwise obvious side effect, a drug passes. Before the FDA allows them to move to phase 2, they are probably going to require the researchers do a slightly longer and bigger phase 1 trial, given the potentially serious side effects they did observe.