Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Innovation from the country you can always trust

Birth control for men in one injection - Science, News - The Independent

From the report:
Researchers at the National Research for Family Planning in Beijing injected 1,000 healthy, fertile male patients with a testosterone-based jab over a two-year period and found only 1 per cent went on to father a child....

For the testing in China, a country which has invested heavily in reproductive technology because of its overpopulation problems, the men were given 500mg of testosterone undecanoate (TU) in tea seed oil. ...

The scientists claim that there were none of the usual side-effects and say the process is reversible. Six months after coming off the injections, the men's sperm count had returned to healthy levels.
Tea seed oil? Make mine Earl Grey with milk, but hold the melamine, thanks.

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