Male Birth Control Pill Soon A Reality
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear a répondu le Tue 2 Dec, 2003 @ 12:40pm |
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SEATTLE, Oct. 1 — Forty-year-old Scott Hardin says he’s glad that men may soon have a new choice when it comes to birth control. But, he adds, he would not even consider taking a male hormonal contraceptive. Hardin is like many men who are pleased to hear they may have a new option but are wary of taking any type of hormones. “I WOULD rather rely on a solution that doesn’t involving medicating myself and the problems women have had with hormone therapy doesn’t make me anxious to want to sign on to taking a hormone-type therapy,” says Hardin, who is single and a college administrator. For the first time, a safe, effective and reversible hormonal male contraceptive appears to be within reach. Several formulations are expected to become commercially available within the near future. Men may soon have the options of a daily pill to be taken orally, a patch or gel to be applied to the skin, an injection given every three months or an implant placed under the skin every 12 months, according to Seattle researchers. “It largely depends on how funding continues. The technology is there. We know how it would work,” says Dr. Andrea Coviello, who is helping to test several male contraceptives at the Population Center for Research in Reproduction at the University of Washington in Seattle. Coviello and her colleagues have found that a male contraceptive that releases testosterone over three months is potentially a safe and practical method of contraception. The Seattle researchers have been testing a sustained-released, testosterone micro-capsule, which consists of a thick liquid administered by injection under the skin. “I never had any real noticeable side effects. I didn’t notice any mood changes. I may have put on a little weight,” says Larry Setlow, a 39-year-old computer programmer with a small software company in Seattle. He has taken part in three male hormonal contraceptive clinical trials at the University of Washington and has received both pills and injections. “They all worked really well and I was able to look at my lab results and see my sperm count drop to zero,” says Setlow. FINALLY, IT IS THE MAN’S TURN Women have had the option of a safe, effective and reversible form of contraception since the development of the female oral contraceptive pill in the 1960s. The Pill turns 40 • Trace the social and scientific history of the pill Female contraceptives use hormones, estrogens and progestins, to shut off the release of eggs to prevent pregnancy. Male hormonal contraceptives work pretty much the same way: hormones, such as testosterone and progestins, are used to turn off sperm production. “It seemed like I was getting headaches and then there were times when I woke up sweating at night and I had to change my shirt. Other than that, I didn’t have any side effects,” says 45-year-old Quentin Brown, who lives in Los Angeles and has been a volunteer in a study of MHCs at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif. Brown has been taking hormonal contraceptives for more than a year. He reports no problems with weight gain or acne, two side effects that occurred in earlier versions of MHCs tested in the 1990s. Brown, who is married and has three children, hopes his kids will one day be able to benefit from the new technology. His would like his son, who is now 17, to one day have the option of taking a male birth control pill. Brown believes many men will see “their pill” as a good idea and will want to use it. “It is time for men to have some control. I think it would empower men and deter some women out there from their nefarious plans,” says Brown. “Some women are out there to use men to get pregnant. This could deter women from doing this. An athlete or a singer is someone who could be a target and they could put a stop to that.” Studies conducted by the World Health Organization show that men from many countries around the world would welcome MHCs. The WHO has tested MHCs in hundreds of volunteers in various countries around the world and have not found it difficult to recruit volunteers for their studies. Researchers say many men are very willing to become involved in the studies and are anxious to see a male birth control pill on the market. A RANGE OF CHOICES Over the past 5 years, researchers around the world have had a great deal of success with male contraceptive pills, patches, implants and creams that deliver various amounts of hormones. It is now believed that an MHC in the form of a daily pill could be available on the market within 5 to 7 years and implants could arrive even sooner. “An injectible or an implant (similar to Norplant for women) will be the first to be approved. The big studies are now under way,” says Dr. Christina Wang, who is heading up the clinical trials of MHCs at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She and her colleagues have found that a combination of progestin and androgen implants are safe, effective, inexpensive and entirely reversible. The California researchers have tested several different products in hundreds of men and are also collaborating with investigators in China. A Chinese clinical trial is now under way at 10 different sites across China and includes 1,000 men. The Phase III trial involves a single injection given once every month. Wang hopes to start a similar trial in the United States within the next 2 years. “We are trying to find the best combination with the least amount of side effects and then the least amount of medication that may be required to get the maximum effects,” says Wang. Wang adds that in some countries, a low-cost, reversible and long-acting form of an MHC could become commercially available within the next 3 years. However, she says it will probably be at least 5 years before one is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Interestingly, Wang says there is now greater interest in this technology than there ever was in the past and there is now more funding available worldwide than ever before. But will men take it? Some say yes, some say only if their partners make them, and other say they would never even consider it. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Tue 2 Dec, 2003 @ 12:43pm |
 Coolness: 339775 | "I may have put on a little weight,” says Larry Setlow, a 39-year-old computer programmer
hahahahaha, did it occur to him that he's just fat and lazy sitting behind a computer? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore a répondu le Tue 2 Dec, 2003 @ 12:56pm |
 Coolness: 471915 | Freak !
Next up men are gonna be breasfeeding and have a red week too ... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» bob_ a répondu le Tue 2 Dec, 2003 @ 12:58pm |
 Coolness: 102315 | hahaha
j'te vois en crisse en train de donner la têtée :) |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore a répondu le Tue 2 Dec, 2003 @ 1:05pm |
| Coolness: 471915 | Basstard ! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» flatlinedive a répondu le Tue 2 Dec, 2003 @ 5:55pm |
 Coolness: 64015 | maybe it's a good thing for monogomous couples that know for sure the dude is taking it correctly......
but it's still the chick who gets pregnant if he fucks up and it still won't protect against std's |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» PitaGore a répondu le Tue 2 Dec, 2003 @ 6:00pm |
| Coolness: 471915 | RIght ! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee a répondu le Tue 2 Dec, 2003 @ 10:36pm |
 Coolness: 238730 | soner or later it was going to happen
some woman have bad react ions to the pill, so now it will not souly be up to the woman to adjusted herself. nice to have equeal power in this area now. Lee |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» djAmalgam a répondu le Tue 2 Dec, 2003 @ 10:40pm |
| Coolness: 105900 | This is why assfucking is so much better. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear a répondu le Wed 3 Dec, 2003 @ 12:12pm |
| Coolness: 2604095 | yes up the ass might be dirty but it's tight... damn loose women... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Purple_Lee a répondu le Wed 3 Dec, 2003 @ 8:29pm |
| Coolness: 238730 | "This is why assfucking is so much better"..and this coming from a Greek..go figure:lol
Sorry paul could not pass that one by Lee |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc a répondu le Wed 3 Dec, 2003 @ 9:10pm |
| Coolness: 148925 | Re: Male birth control pill soon a reality TV show |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» beercrack a répondu le Thu 4 Dec, 2003 @ 1:28pm |
| Coolness: 71545 | i like my hormones the way the are thank you
you know... my whore moans ... no offense but i think a generation of woman have been genetically modified woman has been redefined with the pill why do we want to fuck with hormones? i thik its fucked up I like it au naturel thats just my opinion !free choice! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead a répondu le Thu 4 Dec, 2003 @ 1:42pm |
 Coolness: 685700 | I have a theory that birth controll pills are the reason why there are so many gay males these days. They're estrogen levels are fucked up as all hell. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Thu 4 Dec, 2003 @ 1:56pm |
| Coolness: 339775 | hahah, i think there's always been gay males.. they just were never open about it. AND THEY SHOULDN'T BE!
GET BACK IN THE CLOSET BITCH! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead a répondu le Thu 4 Dec, 2003 @ 2:07pm |
| Coolness: 685700 | Oh, they HAVE always been around, that's for sure. But in this large a number? I don't think so... I don't think it has anything to do with society being more tolerant to "aberant" sexual practices that all these people are "coming out of the closet". |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Thu 4 Dec, 2003 @ 3:15pm |
| Coolness: 339775 | you think it has to do with being chique, or cool? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead a répondu le Thu 4 Dec, 2003 @ 3:21pm |
| Coolness: 685700 | I already said what I think. I think it has to do with the fact that for the past what, 30 years aprox., women have been guneapigs to see if birth controll pills have long term side effects. I think all this gay is a result of that. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform a répondu le Thu 4 Dec, 2003 @ 3:57pm |
| Coolness: 339775 | hmm, so this male birth control pill will make a lot more lesbos?
beh, it's not like homosexuality is bad for humans.. overpopulation is a problem.. maybe gay people are the cure? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead a répondu le Thu 4 Dec, 2003 @ 4:00pm |
| Coolness: 685700 | I never said it was bad. I was simply stating what I thought is one possible cause for how much of it we have. |
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