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title: "Good news, everyone! "A new male birth control pill passed tests of…"
date: 2019-11-15
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# Good news, everyone! "A new male birth control pill passed tests of…

*November 15, 2019 · Facebook*

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Good news, everyone!\
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\"A new male birth control pill passed tests of safety and tolerability when healthy men used it daily for a month, and it produced hormone responses consistent with effective contraception, according to researchers at two institutions testing the drug.\
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The Phase 1 study results were presented on March 24 at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in New Orleans. Stephanie Page, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, jointly led the study with Christina Wang, a professor of medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles.\
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Study results indicate that the experimental male oral contraceptive decreased sperm production while preserving libido. The pill is called 11-beta-methyl-19-nortestosterone dodecylcarbonate, or 11-beta-MNTDC. It is a modified testosterone that has the combined actions of a male hormone (androgen) and a progesterone.\"\
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