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For decades, women have carried most of the responsibility for contraception, with a wide range of options including pills, patches, implants and intrauterine devices (IUDs).
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That could soon change. A new study published in the journal Communications Medicine reports encouraging results from a non-hormonal male birth control pill, YCT-529.
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Designed to be taken orally, the drug was tested in mice and non-human primates.
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It caused no serious side effects and was found to be reversible, effective, and safe – a potential milestone in contraceptive development.
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In male mice, YCT-529 was 99 percent effective in preventing pregnancies within four weeks. In non-human primates, sperm counts fell within two weeks of use.