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Monday, April 19, 2004For example, Oxford University researchers recently reported that a drug used to treat a condition called Gaucher's disease makes male mice sterile by rendering their sperm abnormal. The effect disappeared several weeks after the drug was withdrawn. Robaire, meanwhile, is using genetic studies in rats to explore ways to keep sperm from maturing. (So far, the hormonal methods have had unfortunate side effects such as testicular atrophy, although the newer methods that are being tested are supposed to have less of that.) The article points out that there's an audience out there for male contraceptives just waiting to be tapped: In fact, "the shocker for most people is that men are interested in contraception, are actually using a lot of contraception," said researcher Dr. John Amory of the University of Washington in Seattle. Noting that men provide nearly a third of all contraceptive use despite "pretty limited options," Amory said, "I think there's a market there." Well, of course they'd be interested. A male contraceptive pill would free them from that oldest of marriage traps - the "unexpected pregnancy." posted by Sydney on 4/19/2004 10:59:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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