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Male Birth Control Drug Shows Promise in Mice

Nonhormonal method avoids side effects, researchers say

August 16, 2012 RSS Feed Print

However, she added, "it's going to be many years before we see anything that could approach a product on the market because the level of safety for developing a contraceptive is very, very high. You're giving it to healthy people for a very long period of time ... [so] you have to have a product that's very effective and not going to cause side effects."

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Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to learn more about contraception.

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