Article: New male birth control pill could be the wave of the future

Matt Belliveau
University Wire
02-10-2005
(Massachusetts Daily Collegian) (U-WIRE) AMHERST, Mass. -- "Don't worry, I'm on the pill."

One day, that could be a man speaking.

And with the new agreement between the Norwegian-based company Spermatech AS, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, that day may come sooner than you think.

Spermatech researchers are in the planning stages of creating a drug that could possibly block sperm's ability to swim as well as its ability to fertilize an egg.

This would not be the first attempt in creating birth control for men, but it would be the first to avoid tinkering with male hormones.

Previously, researchers have found that it is extremely ...

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