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Article: MALE BIRTH CONTROL? ODDS LOW IT WILL HAPPEN.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Byline: Scripps Howard News Service
Memphis scientists presented some sexy results at a recent academic conference.
They said an experimental drug called C-31 had rendered 100 percent of male rats sterile, but that the effect was fully reversible, raising hopes of progress for a long-sought pharmaceutical: a male birth-control pill.
The report by researchers affiliated with local pharmaceutical company GTx Inc. and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, attracted heavy media interest following its presentation last month at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in San Diego.
But the company and the ...