Male birth control pill 98% effective

[Al-khiyal]

Male birth control pill 98% effective

March 27, 2008 -- New research shows a new type of contraception for men in the form of a pill to be 98 percent effective, as effective as “the pill”.

Until recently, research into male contraception has involved hormone therapies that could have produced unwanted side effects. This new pill would consist of a chemical compound of a sugar molecule that could be put in a birth control pill or a patch.

The scientists researching this new form of birth control believe that the safest way to create a male equivalent of the commonly used female pill is to disable the sperm. The theory is that if you make the sperm unable to recognize the egg, fertilization cannot take place.

“Basically, what we're trying to do, create, is a blind sperm; a sperm that can't recognize an egg,” explained Dr. Joseph Hall, Ph.D. of the NSU Center for Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences.

Although this chemical compound is about 92 percent effective in rats and 98 percent effective in the Petri dish, scientists say they want to get closer to the perfect male contraceptive.

It has taken Dr. Hall 18 years of research to get to this point and it may be a few more before tests are conducted on larger animals.

Meanwhile, a hormone-based male contraceptive, available in the form of a daily pill or a monthly injection is already available in many countries worldwide.

[Bent_Bladi]

FINALLY! he gets a taste of our own medicine... literally