“We need to go and look back at the data and what was happening at the different study centers and figure that out, and then move forward and decide where to go from there,” she said.Īll in all, the study showed that the hormonal shot was able to suppress sperm function in men and decrease their female partners’ risk of getting pregnant. Most of the reported side effects appeared to be coming from only one of the centers where the study was being administered, Gunter noted, so the scientists are likely planning on analyzing that disparity. The safety-review board determined that “the risks to the study participants outweighed the potential benefits to the study participants,” according to the study. Jen Gunter, an ob-gyn who wasn’t involved in the study, told the Cut. That’s what happens that’s why you overenroll for studies,” Dr. I was just reading a study where of 175 women who enrolled, 20 dropped out by three months.

“Women drop out of birth control and IUD studies all the time. Additionally, one of the study participants committed suicide and another was unable to regain sperm function. The study was halted because of safety concerns raised by an independent safety-review board, not because men couldn’t handle the side effects. Participants were given injections of progesterone and testosterone, and 75 percent of them reported that they would be willing to use this birth-control method after the trial ended. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, was a phase II clinical trial that started out with 320 male participants, only 20 of whom ended up dropping out because of side effects (which included depression and mood changes, injection site pain, increased libido, acne, and more). Shortly after the study came out, though, headlines all over the internet claimed that the study was called off because men are weak and can’t handle the normal side effects of birth control that women regularly deal with. However, the study also found that scientists needed to fine-tune the hormonal combination because of safety concerns.

It revealed that we were one step closer to a male birth-control shot (hallelujah!), because a recent clinical trial found that hormonal injections given to men can help prevent pregnancy in female partners. Last week, a study came out that gave us hope in this dreary time. Male birth-control shots could eventually be a possibility.

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