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Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects

  

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Via:  community  •  8 years ago  •  2 comments

Male Birth Control Study Killed After Men Complain About Side Effects

Whether it's an IUD, a shot, an implant, or a daily pill, birth control is a regular part of many adult women's lives. It's left a lot of women asking: why not men?

For years, people have tried to create birth control for men. The World Health Organization commissioned what sounded like a promising trial, a two-hormone injection designed to lower sperm count. Initial results looked like it would be 96 percent effective in preventing pregnancy in the participants' partners. But the Stage II trial was stopped after an independent review panel found that the drug had too many side effects. The results were published last week in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism .

All Things Considered's Audie Cornish sat down with NPR science correspondent Rob Stein to discuss the trial, and the reason it was cancelled. Here are excerpts of their conversation, edited for length and clarity.

How did this latest study work?

It was a pretty big study; they gave shots to 320 men every eight weeks, in different countries around the world. The shot contained two hormones, and it worked pretty well. It knocked down their sperm counts significantly, and there were only a handful of pregnancies among partners of men in the trial.

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But two committees were paying close attention to the study, and they realized that a lot of guys were dropping out because they were experiencing side effects. The most common side effect was acne, and sometimes that acne was pretty severe. Some men also developed mood swings and in some cases those mood swings got pretty bad. One man developed severe depression, and another tried to commit suicide. Because of that, they cut the study short.

But when they spoke with guys in the study who didn't drop out, most said that if this product was available, they would use it.

 

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Larry Hampton
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link   seeder  Larry Hampton    8 years ago

There's been a lot of eye rolling on the Internet about these side effects, because women have been experiencing things like mood swings and weight gain for decades with hormonal birth control.

How about men start being men; don't put your wiener somewhere unless you are going to be responsible for all the consequences, and stop making women shoulder our job of raising and providing for our children!

 
 
 
Kavika
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link   Kavika     8 years ago

Oh for goodness sake, what a bunch of ''snowflakes''....

 
 

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