Just a few years ago, the new male contraceptive seemed like an inevitable reality. Major pharmaceutical companies like Wyeth, Schering and Organon were pumping millions into hormonal birth-control ...

Deboki: If you’re a woman and you want to use a contraceptive pill, patch, injection, or device, you have 263 options, according to drugs.com. Sam: But If you’re a man and you want a contraceptive, ...

A potential new male contraceptive drug has just undergone its first tests in human volunteers. The results give the first indication that the drug, which does not use artificial hormones or affect ...

Contraline, a biotech company, has received regulatory approval to move onto Phase 2 of human clinical trials for a male contraceptive that conveniently blocks sperm for up to two years. Contraline ...

A new candidate has emerged in the quest for a male birth control pill. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, developed a contraceptive that was 100% effective at reducing fertility in ...

A novel male contraceptive gel combining two hormones, segesterone acetate (named Nestorone) and testosterone, suppresses sperm production faster than similar experimental hormone-based methods for ...

Every morning for a year and a half, Logan Whitehead, 24, rubbed a clear gel on his shoulders, waited for it to dry, then went about his day as usual. “It was basically like a hand sanitizer solution, ...

Stephanie T. Page, MD, PhD, UW Medicine Diabetes Institute, presented on ongoing research and growing interest in new male contraceptive options, such as an oral pill and a hormonal transdermal gel, ...

Using a special microscope, Melanie Balbach (L) and undergrad research assistant Lana Kouatli are able to track the quantities and motility of sperm in a particular sample. Courtesy of Finn Gomez, ...

The biological basis for male contraception was established decades ago, but despite promising breakthroughs and the financial burden men increasingly bear due to better enforcement of child support ...