A new drug candidate renders male mice infertile within an hour and wears off in less than a day. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - If women have the “morning after” pill, could men one day have an “hour before” pill?
“For women, right now all the burden of contraception is on us,” Ms Melanie Balbach, a pharmacology researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine in the US, told AFP. The compound was 100 percent effective in preventing pregnancy within the first two hours, dropping to 91 per cent in the first three hours, the study said.Model Hailey Bieber says taking birth control pills contributed to strokeThe researchers hope are aiming for a single non-hormonal pill that works in under an hour and lasts six to 12 hours, Mr Buck said.
Mr Buck said this was the result of their enzyme always being off – which would not be the case for men taking an on demand pill.
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